Δεκέμβριος 2017

By verifying a cell-based computer model that replicates the mechanics of muscle and tissue against in vitro tests, researchers have brought us a step closer to the era of personalised medicine.

Researchers have developed what they refer to as a ‘Virtual Artery’, a multiscale model incorporating data from physics, chemistry and biology. The team has managed to replicate single cell activity in the arterial wall (endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells) and in the flowing blood (red blood cells, platelets, white blood cells).

European researchers carried out final tests on an innovative technique to lengthen shelf life of food

In a recent article published in Physical Review Letters researchers from CIC nanoGUNE, the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics of Oxford, together with colleagues from Wuerzburg and Stanford University reported new insight into the electronic conduction and interference on 2D-topological insulators - an exotic kind of insulators that conduct only at the edge and that could be key for the development of a new generation of electronic devices.