Mr Grant Stewart, University Lecturer in Department of Surgery, and Professor Russell Cowburn FRS, Professor of Experimental Physics, have been successful in their application to the Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize 2018 for their project entitled “Screening at Point-of-care for Early Assessment of Renal cell cancer (SPEAR)”. The joint project aims to develop a non-invasive, urine-based diagnostic […]
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Single cell RNA sequencing reveals developmental similarities of kidney cancer cells
Mr Tom Mitchell (Clinical Lecturer, Department of Surgery) and Mr Grant Stewart (University Lecturer, Department of Surgery), and colleagues from across the Clinical School reported in Science the precise cellular identity of kidney cancer cells. The team used single cell RNA sequencing technologies, studying just over 70,000 cells derived from tumours and normal kidney tissues representing […]