by MedTech UCL | Mar 10, 2021 | Biomedicine
In 1951, Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with aggressive cervical cancer. She visited the John Hopkins Hospital where it was revealed that she had a large, malignant tumour on her cervix. She started undergoing radiation treatment: the only form of cancer treatment for...
by MedTech UCL | Jan 30, 2021 | Biomedicine, Regenerative Medicine
What are tissue engineering and regenerative medicine? A mini bioengineered human liver that can be implanted into mice. Source: Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT Tissue engineering evolved from the field of biomaterials development and refers to the practice of...
by MedTech UCL | Jan 30, 2021 | AI and Machine Learning, Biomedicine, Neuroscience
When I first took science class in elementary school, we learned about the five senses. Maybe not far into the future, that information might be as outdated as the idea of nine planets in our solar system (sorry, Pluto). This might be thanks to Neuralink, a...
by MedTech UCL | Jan 30, 2021 | Biomedicine, Genetics, Regenerative Medicine
George Church and Ramez Naam on the limitations of evolution, the power of matchmaking, and why we should send single-cell computers into deep space. George Church is a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, but that title undersells him. He is very much an engineer,...
by MedTech UCL | Jan 30, 2021 | AI and Machine Learning, Biomedicine, Genetics, Tech
Nature | Nov 2021 Google’s deep-learning program for determining the 3D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, say scientists. An artificial intelligence (AI) network developed by Google AI offshoot DeepMind has made a gargantuan leap in solving one of...
