Biophysics company in research aimed at early cancer diagnosis

From: Yorkshire Post | Date: August 14, 2007 | Copyright information

AVACTA, the biophysics company, is joining forces with Leeds University to modify its laser technology to diagnose various types of cancer in the early stages.

The research will be funded in part by Cancer Research UK.

Avacta specialises in technology that helps companies to bring drugs to market quickly and cheaply by identifying problems with new compounds at a much earlier stage than before, providing huge cost savings.

Yesterday Avacta said the same technology could b...

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