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Glioblastoma Awareness Day Seeing Progress

17 July 2024

Seeing Progress

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most intractable and fatal type of brain tumour and models to aid study towards better treatment are urgently needed. Here, a genetically-relevant zebrafish model of aggressive human GBM which, thanks to the transparency of the developing fish body, enables live imaging and presents a means of high-throughput genetic and molecular manipulations towards therapeutic discovery

Read the published research article here

Today – 17th July 2024 – is Glioblastoma Awareness Day

Read here about the OurBrainBank initiative, the research and data collection community with a mission to turn GBM from terminal to treatable

Written by Lindsey Goff

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