For years, students at the University of Guyana have expressed the urgent need for better-equipped laboratories, particularly in the medical and natural sciences departments. On Tuesday, two state-of-the-art facilities were launched—the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory and the DNA Barcoding Laboratory—at the University’s Turkeyen Campus. LaWanda McAllister tells us more… | Television Guyana Inc.

Using DNA barcodes to track cancer cells through time, NBCF-funded researcher Associate Professor Alex Swarbrick from Garvan Institute of Medical Research explains how cells within a cancer have diverse abilities to escape immune system defences. Read more: https://nbcf.org.au/news/dna-barcoding-reveals-cancer-cells-ability-to-evade-the-immune-system/ | National Breast Cancer Foundation