Engineers from the University of Sheffield are developing the next generation of autonomy as part of a pioneering new spin out company. Based on eight years of research led by Professor James Marshall and Dr Alex Cope from the University’s Department of Computer Science, Opteran is pioneering lightweight, low cost Read more…
Iain Hagan and Wendy Trotter from the Cell Division group at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute have developed a new approach to synchronise the cell division cycle of an entire population of human cells in culture. Iain believes the approach – now published in Open Biology – will be a game changer for cell biologists. Read the full story here.
Scientists have made a breakthrough in their work to develop semi-autonomous colonoscopy, using a robot to guide a medical device into the body. The milestone brings closer the prospect of an intelligent robotic system being able to guide instruments to precise locations in the body to take biopsies or allow Read more…
Gene editing has been used to fix broken retinal cells in a laboratory setting. Researchers hope it will pave the way for a treatment for the most common form of inherited blindness. The discovery was made possible by a breakthrough in understanding the genetic mutations which cause retinitis pigmentosa. The Read more…