Cancer research models in immunotherapy

Dr Carlos Rogerio de Figueiredo and Professor Maija Hollmén at the University of Turku are exploiting uveal melanoma as a model system, to understand the fundamentals of immunotherapy resistance. Immunotherapies using immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have dramatically improved cancer survival...

Advancing patient care through innovative orthopaedics

Director of the AO Research Institute Davos, Prof Geoff Richards speaks to Innovation News Network about some of the up and coming projects surrounding innovative orthopaedic research and development. Founded in 1958, the AO foundation is a medically guided, not-for-profit...

ROS: Finding a cure for osteoporosis

The Royal Osteoporosis Society's Alison Doyle speaks to Innovation News Network about finding a cure for osteoporosis. In the UK, an estimated 3.5 million people are living with osteoporosis (2.8 million of which are women). As a result of reduced...

The man behind bioactive glass for wound healing

Innovation News Network speaks to Prof Aldo Boccaccini - the man behind the research study trying to understand how the bioactive glass can promote wound healing Bioactive glasses: from bone regeneration to wound healing Originally biomaterials were used to replace diseased...

Furthering fundamental physics by studying plasma

Professor Tiberiu Minea outlines plasma as the reaction of matter receiving high energy and describes studies taking place at the Laboratory of Physics of Gases and Plasmas. The Laboratory of Physics of Gases and Plasmas (LPGP) is a fundamental research...

Induced pluripotent stem cells: iPS cell research for incurable diseases

Dr Makoto Ikeya discusses his work at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University and explains how induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) technologies stand to impact on the future of human health. BY using iPS...

Innovative genomics and bioinformatics research at the Greehey Institute

Dr Siyuan Zheng discusses how the Greehey Institute is continuing to advance the care of children affected by cancer through innovative and translational research. The past decade has witnessed a revolution in cancer research, largely driven by advances in high-throughput...

The European Science Cloud initiative: achieving open science in astrophysics and particle physics

The European Union has launched the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative to support the data driven research in pursuing excellent science. Together, astrophysics and particle physics address the open science challenges in Europe building the EOSC, argues Dr Giovanni...

The challenges of modern optoelectronics: laser, optoelectronic and biophotonic techniques

The Institute of Optoelectronics aims to support research and education in laser, optoelectronic and biophotonic technologies, with laser technology and modern applications at the heart of the institute. The Institute of Optoelectronics (IOE) is an interdisciplinary academic institute at the...

Faecal transfer: how healthy donor faeces could be used to treat C.diff infection

Christian Lodberg Hvas and Simon Mark Dahl Jørgensen, from the Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, discuss C. diff infection and faecal transfer. Recently renamed from Clostridium difficile and known as C. diff, Clostridioides difficile –...

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