Articles tagged with "Biophysics"

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The future’s bright, the future’s artificial

November 25, 2021
As clinical and adjacent staff face overwhelming demands, Cari-Anne Quinn looks at the benefits of digital innovation, technology-led service models, and integrated care systems focused on prevention, to help rebalance...

Quest to control our genes by the power of thought

November 22, 2021
The power to control living cells by treating molecules as switches or transistors has been established in principle. Synthetic biologists believe we could be on the brink of re-engineering life...

Shape-shifting worm blob model could inspire future robot swarms

October 26, 2021
Lumbriculus variegatus blackworms can aggregate into ‘blobs’ capable of collective movement. Researchers observed blackworms to model the behaviour of individual worms, as well as the formation and movement of blobs....

Four challenges to overcome for AI to thrive in medical imaging

October 20, 2021
With increased digitisation in medical clinics, comes increased reliance on AI-enabled tools to more efficiently assess and select diagnostic outcomes using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms based on machine learning techniques....

Fitness beats weight loss for obesity-related health conditions

September 22, 2021
New research finds that increasing physical activity and improving fitness appear to be superior to weight loss for getting healthy and reducing mortality risk. Employing a weight-neutral approach to the...

Staying ahead of the bacteria: A new weapon in the anti-bacterial arms race

June 1, 2021
In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, there is a new tool to give human medicine the edge, in part by revealing bacterial weaknesses and potentially by...

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