Cancer Immunotherapy is rapidly becoming a clinical reality. Gearing the host’s own immune system to target and kill cancerous cells would provide a potent therapy, capable of not only targeting cancer cells with efficiency and accuracy, but attacking them with …
Sex Robots – Condemn or Condone?
High-end silicone, human like with realistic skin, hair, flexible joints. Not a description of Donald Trump, but features of commercially available ‘love dolls’. A ‘sociable robot’ is a socially intelligent robot that interacts with another person in a human-like …
Epigenetics – A double-edged sword to fight Cancer
Cancer Immunotherapy is rapidly becoming a clinical reality. Gearing the host’s own immune system to target and kill cancerous cells would provide a potent therapy, capable of not only targeting cancer cells with efficiency and accuracy, but attacking them with …
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Veganism, Microbes and Overconsumption
The year is 2017, in the west, a co-cultural storm brews that will revolutionise the way that we view nutrition. Developments in metagenomics and metaproteomics, the techniques we use to monitor and understand the bacterial residents of our guts, have …
Heredity to Heresy – the discovery of the Gene
On November 24th 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, a now near-biblical text that would redefine pre-existing beliefs, scrap the notion of Nature’s providence to mankind and punt humanity out of the center spot of creation. Darwin’s …
Bluedot Festival 2017 – Science and Culture come together
Bluedot festival is a rare gemstone that inhabits the interface of Science and Culture. Winner of ‘New Festival on the Block’ and ‘Mind Blowing Spectacle’ in its debut year, Bluedot festival is an interstellar and long overdue concept festival that …
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Durham Scientists Pioneer Tissue Engineering Innovation
The development of new innovative technology enables the advancement of the research and discovery process, and scientific thinking as a whole. For example, it’s hard to conceive of a biomedical sphere untouched by the blessing of PCR or DNA sequencing. …
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The Fight Against Phytate in Malnutrition and Tropical Viruses
Frail medical infrastructure in countries stricken with malnutrition has limited the collection of community-wide dietary data. Whilst malnutrition has been linked with economic fragility, the paucity of studies linking forms of malnutrition in zinc, copper and iron deficiencies with higher …
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