Crispin Miller joins the Beatson Institute
20th March 2019
The Beatson Institute would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr Crispin Miller, who has just started as our Head of Bioinformatics. Crispin joins us from Manchester, where he was senior group leader of the RNA Biology group at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute.
Beatson researchers to receive almost £1.8 million CRUK Grand Challenge funding
23rd January 2019
Beatson researchers are set to receive almost £1.8 million over the next five years as part of a £19 million investment in a global project to investigate why some cancers are specific to certain tissues and not others.
Exposing liver cancer
9th January 2019
9th January 2019Dr Tom Bird has been working with the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Statistics to develop better ways of detecting early forms of liver cancer. Click here to read more.
Click here to read more about Tom's research group.
Improving cell culture media
7th January 2019
Beatson Institute researchers led by Dr Saverio Tardito have been investigating the difference that using traditional media vs a homemade one that more closely mimics physiological conditions can make to the outcome of experiments. The work has been published in Science Advances: Improving the metabolic fidelity of cancer models with a physiological cell culture medium. The research has been covered in an article in The Atlantic: Scientists Have Been Studying Cancers in a Very Strange Way for Decades and also in Cancer Research UK's blog: Cell culture shock – a scientist’s hunt for the perfect cocktail.
Click here to read more about Saverio's research group.
