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A new medical centre with the potential to develop groundbreaking treatments for cancer patients and enhance personalised medicine has been launched at Queen's University in Belfast

The £10 million centre for excellence will be based in the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology and employ 17 members of staff.

The centre will be work on developing a laboratory to focus on diagnostics which can be used to predict cancer patients' response to treatment.

It is hoped that this could allow potentially costly drugs to be used more effectively by being prescribed only to those who can benefit from them.

The project has been part financed by Invest NI, which has pledged £5.8m towards its cost.

A teenager is reaching for the stars after landing an internship at the NASA Space School in the United States this summer.

The A Level student, who's originally from Poland, will be working as part of a team doing development and research on a mission to Mars.

Barbara McCann touched down with him at Armagh Planetarium.