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Neuroscience and MedTech... An Introduction to the field of Neuroscience from its o... -
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Henrietta Lacks: Science... In 1951, Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with aggressive... - MedTech UCL – Readi... We asked the MedTech UCL committee members what their f...
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Henrietta Lacks: Science must right a historical wrong
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...
Neuroscience and MedTech – Past, Present and Future
An Introduction to the field of Neuroscience from its origins to current and future applications in the MedTech world
Making Women in Science Visible – a TedTalk and Book by Rachel Ignotofsky
Rachel Ignotofsky is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator. She is based in Santa Barbara, California where she writes and publishes books about science and history. Rachel has spoken at many companies, bookstores, museums and universities including...
Tissue Engineering and 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...
What Is Neuralink: A Look At What It Is, What It Wants to Be, and What It Could Become – Kenny L.
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 Maybe not far into the future, that information might be as outdated as the idea of nine planets in our solar system (sorry, Pluto).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...
How To Turn Science Fiction Into Science Fact By Ramez Naam
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,...
‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures
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...
Project Sheds Light on What Drives Genes By Gina Kolata
The New York Times | Feb 2015 More than 200 scientists working on an ambitious federal project have begun to understand the complicated system of switches that regulates genes, turning some on and others off, making some glow brightly while others dim. They hope these...
A.I. Versus M.D.
What happens when diagnosis is automated? | By Siddhartha Mukherjee | The New York Times | March 27, 2017 In some trials, "deep learning" systems have outperformed human experts. One evening last November, a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Bronx...
Deep Learning in Medical Imaging: A series by MedTech UCL –
Explore different uses of deep learning in a series of interactive tutorials. https://gist.github.com/sohumsen/5772d4ab21c1c39ac2eda47c2ba03f35
Data Science and Computational Epidemiology of COVID-19 – Dr Moritz Kraemer
Hear Dr Moritz Kraemer from Oxford University talk about his work tracking COVID-19 cases from Wuhan to the UK and the computational methods used! From our Online Conference - COVID-19: What Happened, What's Next? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kOJvauIrTE