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Pioneering collaboration initiated by the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ, Imperial College London and University College London

Nanobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut out defective genes: these are just some of technologies that ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ researchers are developing which are set to revolutionise medicine in the future.

Tony Kouzarides is passionate about ecosystems: well-balanced communities that flourish on mutual and dynamic interactions. But the ecosystems that excite him are not made up of plants, animals and environments. They’re made up of experts.

The stirrings of a revolution are starting to ripple through hundreds of laboratories. It’s a revolution that aims to result in new medicines – faster and with fewer failures – and it’s being led by three UK universities and three global pharmaceutical companies.

Researchers are working with pharmaceutical companies to make improvements across the whole supply chain, from how a pill is made to the moment it is swallowed by the patient.

How will precision medicine define 21st-century therapeutics? What will future healthcare look like? And what actually lies ‘beyond the pill’? Professor Chris Lowe, inaugural Director of the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Academy of Therapeutic Sciences, takes the long view on the future of therapeutics.

Craniectomy – a surgical procedure in which part of the skull is removed to relieve brain swelling – significantly reduces the risk of death following traumatic brain injury, an international study led by the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ has found. 

Tailored, targeted treatment for patients with oesophageal cancer could be developed after scientists discovered that the disease can be classified into three different subtypes

The ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Animal Alphabet series celebrates ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, Z is for Zebrafish as we talk to eminent immunologist Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan about her research into new ways of treating tuberculosis.

°Õ³ó±ðÌý¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Animal Alphabet series celebrates ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, T is for Tasmanian Devil and the researchers studying the transmissable cancer that threatens these marsupials with extinction.