The world’s first ‘Darwinian’ drug discovery programme specially designed to tackle cancer’s lethal ability to evolve resistance to treatment is to be launched in a state-of-the-art new building in London.

Scientists have used artificial intelligence to predict how cancers will progress and evolve – so that doctors can design the most effective treatment for each patient.

Blood tests could predict how long it takes until bowel cancer returns based on the same principle used in forecasting the weather, a new study has found.