Virus cocktails and ice guns could help to tackle food poisoning risk Bacterial infections are a major problem for poultry producers. Outbreaks of E. coli, for example, can spread quickly through a flock, resulting in high mortality and loss of income for farmers. Other bacteria such as Salmonella and Campylobacter might not be as…
GEARING-Roles announced as the CORDIS Project of the Month for June 2021 CORDIS are featuring the GEARING-Roles project as their Project of the Month due to its intrepid work in the field of gender roles and gender equality in the research and innovation sectors. In particular, CORDIS are highlighting the project’s board game, ‘Nobel Run’,…
Three EU-backed physicists have used a new mathematical approach to make calculating particle collisions much easier. Everything we see around us is made up of elementary particles, the building blocks of matter. We know that protons and neutrons are made up of particles called quarks and that electrons are important building blocks for atoms. Thanks…
By Sandrine Ceurstemont Bacterial infections are a major problem for poultry producers. Outbreaks of E. coli, for example, can spread quickly through a flock, resulting in high mortality and loss of income for farmers. Other bacteria such as Salmonella and Campylobacter might not be as serious to the birds, but can lead to illness in…
By Caleb Davies In 2016, three pioneers of building molecular machines were recognised with a Nobel prize. Their work broke new ground. But the first tranche of molecular machines that they were rewarded for creating were mostly simple affairs such as rotors, switches and the like. Now chemists like Professor David Leigh at the University…
By Katrina Hutchins Conference on resource efficiency and sustainable consumption Copenhagen, 27 May 2021. Presentations and discussion: 9 am – 12 pm CET Networking/debate: 3 pm – 5 pm CET Programme and registration are available via i-REXFO Registration closes 21 May 2021 Unsustainable patterns of consumption are a primary cause of climate change, land degradation, resource…
Read the article “Rapid prototyping of soft bioelectronic implants for use as neuromuscular interfaces” from the journal “nature biomedical engineering” published in September 2020 here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-020-00615-7 Read the article “Printed elastic membranes for multimodal pacing and recording of human stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes” from the journal “npj: flexible electronics” published in July 2020 here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41528-020-0075-z?elqTrackId=a25d5a050e254713978145e7b7683f46 …
The INTEGRABRAIN Team Professor Ivan Minev Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Professor of Intelligent Healthcare Technologies Bio: Ivan Minev studied Physics at Imperial College London graduating in 2008. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge in 2012. Working in the group of Stephanie Lacour, he was involved in developing stretchable…
Between light and matter Light-based information fluxes manipulated by robust topological soft matter structures State-of-the-art In our ever-growing digital world, finding fast and efficient ways of manipulating and transmitting information unlocks the possibility to implement more efficient business models (e.g. using big data, cloud computing, deep learning), as recognised by the European Commission’s Digital Single…
Belinda Pletzer and team have just launched a Frontiers research topic on the effects of hormonal contraceptives on the brain. The research overview can be found here: Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives on the Brain: Oral contraceptives just celebrated their 60th anniversary and are used by 150 million women worldwide. Their primary function is to downregulate the…