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Cristina Cruz and Teresa Dias from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, focus on biostimulants, which are more than a product, but a significant change towards sustainable food production systems.

Christopher H. Contag from the Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering (IQ) at Michigan State University discusses the potential of engineered endosymbionts as biologically encoded remote controls for regenerative medicine.

Photodynamic therapy can stimulate a person’s own immune system to better recognise – and fight – cancer tumours, say Mary Potasek, PhD and Karl Beeson, PhD of Simphotek and Theresa M Busch, PhD of the Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania.

Prof. Giovanni Brandi^1,2 and Dr. Simona Tavolari1 of the 1 Medical Oncology, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; ²Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, discuss ischemia-reperfusion injury in hepatic surgery, and the potential to prevent it through hydrogen-therapy.

Klaus Eyer from ETH Zurich describes high-resolution snapshots of antibody repertoires as potential correlates of protection.

Long before the existence of microbes was known, humans were unknowingly harnessing their power through practices such as brewing, bread leavening, or cheesemaking. These processes extended the shelf life of food, enhanced its nutritional value, and significantly contributed to the advancement of industry and civilization.

Dermot Cox BSc, PG Dip Ed, PhD, Pharmacology Lead from the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences – RCSI University of Medicine & Health Sciences, discusses sepsis and the killer platelets.

I have a BSc in pharmacology from University College Dublin and a PhD in immunology from Dublin City University. Initially I led a drug discovery group in Fujisawa pharmaceutical Co, Japan to discover novel anti-platelet agents - GPIIb/IIIa antagonists. Subsequently I worked on understanding the failure of this class...

Do Universities help or hurt innovation? Find out in this 25-year academic entrepreneur’s anecdotal perspective of starting companies and developing implants. Thomas J. Webster shares his opinion here.

Joe Price, Dr Kang Lan Tee & Prof Tuck Seng Wong, explore adopting a holistic approach to microbe development for the age of biomanufacturing.

Professor Christopher Contag is the founding director of the Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering at Michigan State University; the Institute was founded in 2016 and is known as IQ.

Lynette Abbott from The University of Western Australia, places the spotlight on soil health, including its physical, chemical, biological and hydrological characteristics.

Protection Paints has developed Vira-Protect with a source of silver ions combined with water-based paint-compatible polyurethane to create a hardwearing, efficient paint to support infection control

Electric eels are renowned for their ability to generate up to 860 volts of electricity, a power potential previously harnessed to run machines.

Researchers from the University of Toronto Scarborough have revealed that the protective waxy barrier surrounding plants may be crucial in sending chemical signals to other plants and insects.

Ute Deichmann, Director of the Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses the adoption and limitations of Artificial Intelligence within modern experimental biology.

Researchers at Washington State University have created a groundbreaking surgical implant that demonstrated 87% effectiveness in destroying the bacteria responsible for staph infections in laboratory trials.

Open Access Government briefly analyses what ecological science is, examining some of the areas it encompasses and how it protects human health, with an introduction from NEOMA Business School.

Antibiotics used to treat common infections in infants and children are becoming increasingly ineffective worldwide.