The supporters of Charity Soul have been very active throughout the summer with numerous events around the UK. Bridlington Spa Weekender – Charity Soul had a dual involvement at both the popular Spa Soul Weekender and also at the Windsor Hotel. There was also an extended presence this year on both Friday and Saturday which proved very rewarding, though extremely tiring, where we received substantial donations at both venues. As we were kindly invited to the Spa Weekender...
A massive thank you to Terry Kneeshaw for the patch picture he has commissioned. For every one he sells he donates £5.00 to Charity Soul. Below is Terry and Dave recently receiving a cheque for £300.00 from him:- ...
Charity Soul would like to say a big thank you to two community WMC’s who held fundraising soul music nights for Prostate Cancer research. These closely nit community clubs moved heaven and earth to organise these well attended events, for which members of Charity Soul were also in attendance. The fundraising sequence started here:- SHAFTON WMC. BARNSLEY – Friday 2nd February Chartiy Soul were invited, through Tim Michaels of Next PLC (Doncaster) and Melvin Colbourne, to assist in the running of a fundraising event at...
I hope you remember the research projects I set for my group of students last year? As I said at the time, the research, supported by Charity Soul funds, takes months to work through, and we’ve not been idle over that time. I hope you’ve been taking note of the many articles in the newspapers and in the other media, describing gene editing as THE biology of the decade. All of our 2017 students have now got their degrees (some did...
Scientists at the The Cancer Research Unit (University of York) have shown that a protein in the bone marrow acts like a ‘magnetic docking station’ for prostate cancer cells, helping them grow and spread outside of the prostate. Now that this mechanism has been identified, however, scientists at York have found a way to block the signal in the cancer cells, disabling the cell and preventing it from multiplying at a new site in the body. Their research showed that the protein,...
We have made a great start but urgently need funds to extend the ‘Gene Clipping’ study to cover more of the candidate genes. To fund a Charity Soul, full time Scientist for one year it would cost approximately £42,000, this includes salary and consumables costs. Please go to the ‘Donate’ tab now to contribute to our research – Thank you! ...
All of our students have now finished their studies and will shortly be receiving their degrees from the University of York. As part of this they all produced a report (or thesis), which acknowledged the support of Charity Soul. Without this support they would not have been able to do the complicated genetics experiments they have reported. All of the experiments seemed to work, and we have prostate cells in which 3 different genes have been edited. Due to the students’...
Thanks to Charity Soul, this recent paper, in a top cancer journal was made possible. The research was begun as part of an EU-funded International project, which finished before we could get the ultimate data. This data was provided by an Italian Graduate Dr Giovanna Nappo, who carried out the key experiments, supported by the funds raised by all of you at Charity Soul. The paper tells us that a cancer patient’s immune system, which he would use to fight off...
On Our Travels: Putting it out there:- An important part of scientific research is working with others and sharing your results with scientists in centres around the UK, Europe and the World. There is no point in carrying out expensive cancer research if you keep it all to yourself, and if it doesn’t pass the scrutiny of other scientists. Sometimes these meetings result in criticism, but more often a sense of working together to pool expertise is the result (collaboration). However,...