Your Science Reps' Report Jan 2024
Clinical trials have demonstrated that a new cancer vaccine, developed by a French biotechnology company, could potentially increase survival rates for certain lung cancers by nearly fifty percent.
Read moreScience and Society would like to congratulate and bring to the notice of members the Nobel Prize awarded in Chemistry. Advances in areas that will probably affect us all.
U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones, yielding advances in areas such as drug development.
Half the prize was awarded to Baker "for computational protein design" while the other half was shared by Hassabis and Jumper "for protein structure prediction", said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which makes the award
Dr Tennison talked about how Artificial Intelligence is affecting and will affect all our lives in the future and how women will be most adversely affected. There will be many ways in which AI can make improvements but she emphasised the need to be wary of its use in scams including deception by voice mimicry, to obtain personal information.
Dr Cragg is Aquarium Curator and Living Collections Manager at the Horniman Museum. He told us about his work to restore and regrow reef- building corals damaged by bleaching, overfishing and the rise in ocean temperatures. He said he feared that some reef systems have been irretrievably damaged.
Dr Cook gave an illustrated talk on research into the use of pesticides on farmed crops and the development of alternatives that are less harmful to wildlife and the environment whilst helping to increase crop yields to feed a growing world population.
CEng CEnv FSOE FIMechE - Professor Burnage spoke about the use of hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels in domestic heating, transport and across the industry.
Clinical trials have demonstrated that a new cancer vaccine, developed by a French biotechnology company, could potentially increase survival rates for certain lung cancers by nearly fifty percent.
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Read moreThirty new blankets have already been delivered to Ukraine - and Winslow WI are still knitting!
Read moreWhy do we use them? What are the risks? What are the alternatives? Click the link below to view the presentation from the 2024 I&D Day.
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