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Oral anticancer therapy: Improving safety, empowering patients

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The ability of patients to administer potentially toxic oral anticancer medications by themselves in the comfort of their homes allows freedom and control of their treatment away from a hospital […]

Free blood donation vs. the plasma market

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Blood products are vital both for transfusion purposes and the production of blood-derived medicines. Currently, the two ways of obtaining blood products are via free blood donations or via the […]

Breath hold techniques during volumetric modulated arc therapy in breast cancer patients

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The research of Dr Vishruta Dumane, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, focuses on developing approaches to radiotherapy that will minimise risk to neighbouring organs and tissues, […]

Antlers: The long and short of it

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Antlers play a central role in deer mating behaviour as both a weapon for competition between rivals, and a visual signal of mate quality. However, antler growth is energetically costly […]

Building waveguides for everyday photonic circuits

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From mobile phones to computers, the devices we use every day are almost universal in their use of electricity for transmitting information through their circuits. However, Dr Richard Hildner at […]

Taking care in business: Making jobs work for older employees

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The workforce is ‘greying’, but this is no grey sky for business. Older employees bring loyalty and experience, prized assets for the modern company. However, age comes with needs and […]

A measure to predict critical errors in open emergency surgery

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Medical errors are a leading cause of worldwide deaths. Surgeons are sometimes required to carry out procedures that they do not perform frequently, which leads to surgical errors that can […]

Researcher: An app to keep scientists on top of science

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The Researcher app keeps scientists informed about latest publications in their field.

Olly Cooper, CEO and co-founder of the Researcher app, thinks he and his team have found a solution for scientists who need to be confident that they have heard about […]

Sustainable construction for a circular economy

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CO2 emissions are a result of the lifecycle of buildings.

Prof Dr-Ing Danièle Waldmann and Dr Gelen Gael Chewe Ngapeya from the Institute of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Luxembourg are developing sustainable solutions for the construction […]

Traversing the minefield: A professional humanitarian for a new world of risk

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Syrians in a refugee camp in Suruc, Turkey.

The inhumanity of war has always put the humanitarian in peril. But today aid workers stand in the crosshairs of armed adversaries with new tactics and targets for their violence, […]