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Wearable brain-machine interface turns intentions into actions

July 22, 2021
A new wearable brain-machine interface (BMI) system could improve the quality of life for people with motor dysfunction or paralysis, even those struggling with locked-in syndrome - when a person...

Imaging technique could become treatment for deep vein thrombosis

July 19, 2021
Engineering researchers who set out to develop technology capable of localising and imaging blood clots in deep veins have discovered their work may not only identify blood clots, but it...

Demystifying plant biostimulants for selection based on crop growing goals

July 16, 2021
Plant biostimulants have now been categorised by into eight classes based on their modes of action. A newly published review, which includes summaries of product composition, mechanisms, efficacy, and application...

Unlocking the value of data in Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN)

July 16, 2021
Pharma companies, personnel involved in data standards, and ELN (electronic notebook) vendors are being sought to help with the Semantic Enrichment of ELN Data (SEED) project which uses data standards...

New report recommends antibody testing within the Covid-19 vaccination programme

July 8, 2021
Antibody testing can be used to identify the minority of people who have a sub-optimal response to Covid-19 vaccination, this is estimated to be up to 10 per cent of...

Real milk, real cheese – no cows required

July 8, 2021
Will 'animal-free' AI driven processing replace 'plant-based' dairy products? An Israeli start-up is applying AI to precision fermentation to artificially brew the whey and casein proteins that make up real...

Tissue autografting turns pulp fiction into pulp reality

July 6, 2021
One of the most challenging medical conditions is serious loss of tissue. Unlike certain animals, humans have only a limited capacity for regrowing missing body parts, which is how the...

Researchers reduce severity of sleep apnoea by at least 30 per cent

July 5, 2021
Imagine waking up a hundred times every night not being able to breathe! Believe it or not, data suggests this actually happens to around one and a half million adults...

Olympic Games highlights global inequity in COVID-19 vaccination progress

July 5, 2021
With the rescheduled 2020 Olympic games set for July and August this year, the low vaccination rates in Japan and the impending influx of local spectators to the events could...

New topological superconductor could fill critical component gap in quantum computing

June 18, 2021
A newly discovered superconductor could have enormous impact on quantum computing. The relative sensitivity of qubits - the elementary units of quantum computers - has raised challenges with reliability when...

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