SEA-TITAN: Wave energy technology convergence
Aleix Maria Arenas from Wedge Global tells us what we need to know about the H2020-funded SEA-TITAN project that encourages a step-change towards wave energy technology convergence.
Enduring research: The constant threat of influenza virus outbreaks
Here, experts Stephan Pleschka, Oliver Planz and Stephan Ludwig walk us through the constant threat of influenza virus outbreaks and the benefit of enduring research in antiviral drug development.
Plant essential oils: Nature’s insecticides
Joel R. Coats, Distinguished Professor, Department of Entomology, Iowa State University provides an introduction and analysis of plant essential oils – nature’s insecticides.
Targeted policy support for emerging biomedical innovations
Michael Morrison, Senior Researcher in Social Science at the University of Oxford, illustrates the importance of emerging biomedical innovations in the UK.
High voltage agriculture creates sustainable food supply
Professor Koichi Takaki discusses how combining electricity and biology could create a sustainable food supply.
Tree crop productivity: The microbial terroir of vineyards
Philippe Rolshausen from University of California, Riverside shares with us his research and extension program that focuses on understanding specific biotic and abiotic factors that limit tree crop productivity.
Economic geography research: Manufacturing recovery in industrial regions?
Peter Sunley from the University of Southampton investigates the potential of advanced manufacturing for spatial rebalancing in this fascinating economic geography research focus.
Bioquell’s rapid bio-decontamination service (RBDS) is effective against COVID-19
Director of Product Management at Bioquell, Guy Turner, explains how RBDS uses Bioquell’s 35% hydrogen peroxide vapour solution to eliminate pathogens, thus providing a 6-log sporicidal kill and eliminating all traces of COVID-19.
Vitamin A joins endocrine disruption
Here, Alberto Mantovani discusses how Vitamin A joins endocrine disruption, an increasingly crucial issue.
Oligomers: The advanced material for the design of nanomachines
Professor Vladik Avetisov and his teams are searching for oligomeric compositions, which are only a few nanometres in size, that behaves like nonlinear mechanical systems, more of which are detailed here in this chemical physics analysis.
Galvanising the scientific community towards a common goal during a pandemic
Jane Kinghorn, Director at UCL Translational Research Office and Nick McNally, Managing Director Research UCL/UCLH, describe some of the approaches taken by the scientific community in supporting hospitals dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pyroptotic cell death: Controlled self-destruct that causes inflammation and disease
Associate Professor Petr Broz discusses pyroptotic cell death, the controlled cellular explosion that can harm your health.
10% of COVID-19 patients with diabetes die within 7 days of hospitalisation
New research has found that one in ten COVID-19 patients with diabetes dies within seven days of hospital admission.
Computer science, software and mathematics: Interactive proof assistants
Dr Nicolas Tabareau from IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, provides us with further insight about interactive proof assistants, within the wider field of computer science, software and mathematics.
Finland: A framework for genetic research
Mark Daly, Director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE at the University of Helsinki, shares his expertise on medical genetic research on a population scale in Finland.
How battery calorimetry can enhance the lifetime and safety of Lithium-ion and post-Li cells
Dr Carlos Ziebert, head of IAM-AWP’s Calorimeter Center, KIT, explains how battery calorimetry can enhance the lifetime and safety of Lithium-ion and post-Li cells.
A gateway to transport and energy research: The Innovation and Networks Executive Agency
Dirk Beckers, Director of the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency, charts the important work of the organisation in supporting transport and energy research plus the ambitious Horizon Europe research and innovation framework programme (2021-2027).
Could placenta cells save patients with severe COVID-19?
Israeli therapeutics firm, Pluristem, have recently pioneered a breakthrough treatment which administers a unique placenta-based cell therapy to COVID-19 patients who have been identified as high-risk mortality cases.
Dementia gene doubles risk of developing severe COVID-19
Researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine found that a faulty gene linked to dementia doubles the risk of developing severe COVID-19.
Targeting immune mechanisms underlying cardiovascular diseases
János G. Filep, MD from the University of Montreal and Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital in Canada, discusses targeting immune mechanisms underlying cardiovascular diseases.
