Pharmaceutical

Doctors now have a new weapon in the fight against cancer: detailed maps of the cells in a tumour that can be explored and analyzed in a virtual reality simulation that its creators say provides researchers with an intuitive new way to examine complex medical data that could lead to unexpected breakthroughs. Built by doctors at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK), the new virtual lab takes detailed scans of breast cancer tissues and turns them into detailed simulations that doctors around the world can explore. The simulation lets doctors analyze every single cell of a tumour, something they have never been able to do before. And because that...