General Archive
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LifeArc collaboration helps to advance a potential new cancer drug towards the clinic
Making our unique ULK inhibitors available as tools for the academic community has helped to reignite interest in blocking autophagy…
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Exploring new approaches to drug discovery
LifeArc’s scientists have been working on a fresh approach to drug discovery, using a parallel high-throughput application to significantly improve…
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Rising to the challenge of COVID-19
While the development of COVID-19 vaccines has garnered much attention, scientists have also been looking at repurposed medicines as an…
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How to kill a virus: LifeArc’s role in shaping the UK’s COVID-19 response
In 2020 the UK Government, supported by UK Research and Innovation and the National Institute for Health and Research, launched…
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LifeArc scientists play pivotal role in the search for a COVID-19 antibody therapy
While much attention in the race for treatments for Covid-19 has been on the development of new vaccines, scientists have…
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Virtual reality technology for small molecular drug discovery
A project by an industrial placement student led to Virtual Reality becoming a powerful tool for drug discovery Technology has…
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Life, re-engineered: new milestone in the emerging field of synthetic genomics
When MRC researchers achieved a new milestone in the emerging field of synthetic genomics, LifeArc set this early-stage technology on…
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Modelling the human brain
Candidate drugs to treat the central nervous system could be screened with three-dimensional brain tissue grown in the laboratory. We…
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Keytruda: a new generation of cancer treatment
In 2007, LifeArc entered a collaboration with Organon – ultimately acquired by Merck – to translate innovative drug targets into…
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Cancer: LifeArc is working in partnership with Worldwide Cancer Research
We have worked in partnership with Worldwide Cancer Research (WCR) since 2011 to ensure that intellectual property arising from their…
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Breast cancer: new treatment monitoring test avoids risks from biopsy
Through their shared dedication to patients, LifeArc and diagnostics company Biocartis are developing a ‘liquid biopsy’ test for breast cancer…
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Renishaw Diagnostics: a test for antibiotic resistance
We collaborated with Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd. on a rapid diagnostic test for the detection of carbapenemase genes, which are associated…