A new laser system that can zap cancer cells that are smaller than the width of a human hair without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue is being developed.
Experts at Edinburgh s Heriot-Watt University have been given £1.2 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for the project.
The new system will be based around ultrafast, picosecond lasers that deliver energy in a series of pulses that are each just one trillionth of a second long.
Laser surgery expert Jonathan Shephard and colleagues have already demonstrated that the treatment concept can be successfully used on colorectal cancers.
They will now be now be working with clinicians at the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust to apply the technique to brain cancers.
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Champion Hurdle option open for Honeysuckle and Concertista at Cheltenham
Wed 13 Jan 2021
Concertista and
Honeysuckle add extra spice to a fascinating selection of 27 entries for the
Unibet Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham on the opening day of the 2021 Cheltenham Festival, Tuesday March 16.
While Concertista and Honeysuckle both appear more likely to take in alternative engagements at the Festival, it is interesting to see options remaining open for the pair, and along with reigning champion
Epatante they provide a particularly strong-looking line-up of mares.
Epatante is not the only former winner in the potential line-up, with her trainer Nicky Henderson having also entered 2017 and 2018 winner
Past The Wire Search
December 23, 2020
By Breandán Ó hUallacháin
Six American jumps horses have been based in Ireland since 24 November 2020 as US Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Sheppard’s team aims their National Hunt horses at a European campaign.
Overseeing their training and preparation in Ireland is former champion apprentice jumps rider, Keri Brion, who has been assistant trainer in the USA to Englishman Sheppard for the past twelve years.
Brion explained to Past The Wire why the US jumps horses have been brought to Ireland.
“When Covid really took a turn for the worse, our season really got messed up,” she says, “and all the Grade 1 races were cancelled, our season was cut very short. A lot of these horses we had bought the winter before and not a lot of them had really good chances to run. When they cancelled the rest of the Grade 1s that was when we had the idea to bring Winston C over. When we decided we were bringing him a couple of other own