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How the public sector can achieve start-up style innovation

Innovation in the public sector can be slow-moving. Alistair Smith at Contino explains how government services can get the sleek style of a start-up Although digital innovation has repeatedly been taken up with enthusiasm by various governments and government departments over the past decade or so, attempts to adopt lean,...
space technology

Space technology: how space benefits life on earth

M F Warrender highlights how space technology plays an integral role in society and how NASA invests in technology development
escherichia coli

An insight into Escherichia coli

Understanding Escherichia coli ecology and evolution in the gut as a commensal is a prerequisite to fight this opportunistic pathogen
paediatric cancers

Focusing on paediatric cancers

Epigenetic changes play a critical role in the development of paediatric cancers. Ivan Stamenkovic, Professor of Pathology, explains

Targeting stem cell transdifferentiation could eradicate glioblastoma

John Lowengrub and colleagues provide insight into the challenge to eradicate glioblastoma and the use of stem cell transdifferentiation.   Huaming Yan1,7, Mónica Romero-López2, Lesly I. Benitez4, Kaijun Di4,9, Hermann B. Frieboes5,6, Christopher C. W. Hughes2,4,7,8, Daniela A. Bota8,9,10, Vittorio Cristini11, John Lowengrub1,2,7,8 1 Dept. of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 2 Dept....

Adaptive clinical trials: Ethical and efficient

Prof Thomas Jaki at the Medical and Pharmaceutical Statistics Research Unit, Lancaster University outlines the benefits of adaptive clinical trials

Understanding the adverse outcome pathway concept

Alberto Mantovani, Istituto Superiore di Sanità looks at how the adverse outcome pathway concept is the long way from molecular to adversity

Brexit vote sees fall in net migration

Latest estimates suggest that the UK has seen an overall decline in net migration since the country voted to leave the EU last June as EU nationals leave New estimates show that net migration in the UK has fallen to its lowest level in 3 years in the year since...

The burden of non-communicable diseases

The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health shares the strategies in place for non-communicable diseases and the importance evidence-based prevention policy

Novaramed – Novel medication for neuropathic pain

As neuropathic pain increasingly becomes a global health issue, Novaramed is developing a treatment for chronic pain caused by nervous system damage

Recognising the important role of biodiversity

Pamela S. Soltis, Director, University of Florida Biodiversity Institute, reveals the key work being done in the US to respond to the ‘biodiversity crisis’

Illicit drugs know no borders, neither should policy making

Simone Korff de Gidts, The Netherlands Organisation for Health, Research and Development highlights the ERANID project for illicit drugs research

Alzheimer’s Disease as a spectrum disorder

When it comes to Alzheimer's Disease one size does not fit all. It should be considered a spectrum disorder, with precision medicine a key part of treatment
precision livestock farming

Solving challenges through precision livestock farming

Daniel Berckmans, Catholic University of Leuven asks if precision livestock farming could help to monitor health and environmental impacts of farming

Driving renewable energy research and innovation in FP9

Greg Arrowsmith, Policy Advisor at EUREC outlines how effective projects drive the EU to keep powering renewable energy research and innovation

Asthma: How to treat and prevent the high impact disease

Sereina de Zordo from the aha! Swiss Allergy Centre outlines the global burden of asthma and how through various methods and programmes it can be managed

Supporting the urban Aboriginal population in Canada

Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada explain how the organisation is working to better the lives of the urban Aboriginal population in Canada
children

Specific language impairment: What do we know?

Mabel L Rice, University of Kansas details how the language of children with specific language impairment differs from typical children

The challenge of maintaining cyber security

After a number of high profile breaches cyber security has become a key focus for the public sector, says Meg Hillier MP, Chair, Public Accounts Committee
Fishing agreement reached between UK and Europe

Declining fish stocks: complex pathways of toxic chemical impact

Profesor Helmut Segner at the Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health discusses the possible role of chemical pollution in the decline of freshwater fish stocks

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