SCIENTISTS at the University of Bradford made international headlines in 2011 when they used the opportunity of the city hosting the British Science Festival to reveal a pioneering 'smart bomb' tumour ...

Many newspapers have reported today that a substance found in the autumn crocus, a flower native to Britain, has been turned into a “smart bomb” against cancer. The newspapers reported that the ...

The importance of the Telegraph & Argus Crocus Cancer Appeal was set out in a lecture to students at the University of Bradford this week. Professor Laurence Patterson told 25 students of the ...

The autumn crocus is a beautiful but deadly flower. There is no antidote to colchine, the arsenic-like toxin it releases. Nonetheless, there is reason for the British to try to save this native ...