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The challenge of chronic pain in Europe

Mariano Votta, Director of Active Citizenship Network, speaks to The Innovation Platform about good practices to better address the societal impact of pain. Chronic pain...

Could agriculture offer a solution to climate change?

Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, stresses how agriculture is not in the past, it is in fact a future solution to climate change. Launched in...

Going off-grid to end the climate emergency

As the climate emergency gets increasingly worse, more people are turning to an ‘off-grid’ lifestyle. Nick Rosen speaks to The Innovation Platform about life...

Investing in safer road infrastructure

Road accidents cost Europe €280bn annually – the European road assessment programme is working towards a Europe free of High Risk Roads. Following the success...

Behind the Circular Plastics Alliance

The European Union’s Strategy for plastics tackles the way plastics are currently produced, used and discarded in order to make plastics circular. The Commission has...

The integration of AI into healthcare

The Innovation Platform speaks to ABHI Communications Manager Jonathan Evans about the advantages of AI and machine learning in the healthcare sector. Representing the health...

Meet the new ESRF Extremely Brilliant Source storage ring

Frank Sette speaks to The Innovation Platform (TIP) about the capabilities of this new generation of high-energy synchrotron source. On December 2 2019, the first electrons were...

Lead batteries: a role model of safe, sustainable recycling

With a remarkable 99% recycling rate and successful circular economy, lead batteries surpass the sustainability of newer battery chemistries. Can they respond? The reliability of...

Endocannabinoid signalling in olfactory neural circuits

Thomas Heinbockel presents groundbreaking evidence that the endocannabinoid system plays a role in regulating neuronal activity in the main olfactory bulb. The cannabis plant Cannabis...

Advanced osteoarthritis: the curse and blessing of total joint arthroplasties

Dr Jochen Salber, of the Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum, tells us about arthroplasties: the only effective therapy for patients suffering from advanced osteoarthritis. It is estimated that...

Astrophysical challenges tackled at CEA: multiwavelength observations of the cosmos

Dr Anne Decourchelle of CEA Saclay outlines the intriguing science results from the CEA's astrophysics department based on multiwavelength observations. When it comes to the...

Hardware security: learn about the deployment of EMC-Compliant IC chip techniques

‘Secafy’ research team of Kobe University present wide frequency & dynamic range EM noise measurements for electric vehicles – could these contribute toward hardware...

How calorimetry can help in battery research

Innovative calorimetric methods can improve the thermal management and safety of lithium and post-lithium batteries. The European Commission has recently announced their approval of €3.2bn...

Sea4Us: fighting chronic pain epidemics in line with nature

Sea4Us is a pharmaceutical company working on the discovery and development of drugs active on ion channels involved in syndromes, such as chronic pain. Living...

Controlled drug delivery: working on new options for better therapies

Although the concept of controlled and local drug delivery is not new, there is an urgent need to improve existing systems and to explore...

Using blockchain in the global food industry

The Food Standards Agency’s Director of Openness, Data and Digital, Julie Pierce, discusses the use of blockchain in the food industry and the impact...

A time for change: battery-less healthcare sensor platforms

Researchers have discovered a battery-less healthcare monitoring sensor platform that uses electromagnetic waves as a power source. Thanks to the progress in sensor technology, many...

eROSITA: Revealing the beauty of the hidden Universe

First observations of the eROSITA X-ray telescope promise a breakthrough in our understanding of the energetic Universe. AT 14:17 on 21 June 2019, the Russian-German...

CardLabs: Security at your fingertips

CardLabs, in collaboration with QuardLock, have put together an extremely effective and user-friendly way of controlling your own data. Have you ever checked how many...

Osteoarthritis: causing disability worldwide 

DFG Research Consortium, ‘ExCarBon’, explores articular cartilage and subchondral bone degeneration and regeneration in osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis (OA), a whole-joint disease in which all components of...

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