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Medical physics and biotechnology: highlights of 2021

Physics World

Alongside ongoing efforts to help detect , analyse and prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, 2021 has seen also the introduction of novel cancer treatments, advances in diagnostic imaging technology and innovative new biomedical devices. The post Medical physics and biotechnology: highlights of 2021 appeared first on Physics World.

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Andes releases nature-based, carbon-removing technology

Environmental News Bits

Carbon removal company, Andes, in partnership with EcoEngineers, has developed a carbon-removing technology that uses natural processes to remove and sequester carbon. The biotechnology captures and stores carbon permanently in soil, where it is then turned into nutrients naturally by microorganisms in plant roots.

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EC Recommends Carrying Out Risk Assessment on Biotechnologies

Nanotech

The European Commission (EC) announced on October 3, 2023, that it adopted a Recommendation on critical technology areas for the European Union’s (EU) economic security, for further risk assessment with EU member states. According to the EC, the Recommendation relates to the assessment of technology risk and technology leakage.

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Warming Trends: Katherine Hayhoe Talks About Hope, Potty Training Cows, and Can Woolly Mammoths Really Fight Climate Change?

Inside Climate News

By Katelyn Weisbrod Critics are questioning claims by a start-up biotechnology company that a genetically engineered version of the woolly mammoth could help alleviate climate change and restore Siberia’s grassland ecosystem to its Pleistocene heyday. Colossal , a company founded by technology entrepreneur B.

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Wireless implant uses optogenetics to control spinal cord activity in mice

Physics World

But compared with the brain, optogenetics in the spinal cord presents a series of challenges that require the development of new light-delivery technologies. They describe this novel implantable system in Nature Biotechnology. Technology features. Research team: The NeuroRestore group. Credit: Jimmy Ravier).

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Listen to This: 'Hope Lies in Dreams,' a New Podcast from Nature Biotechnology

Scientific American

This is a story of desperation, anger, poverty—and triumph over long odds to crack the code of a degenerative disease that had been stealing the lives of children since it was first discovered. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Dr. Amanda Antons Joins Arnold & Porter’s Intellectual Property & Technology Practice in Chicago

Arnold Porter

Arnold & Porter announced today that Dr. Amanda Antons has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property & Technology practice as counsel, resident in Chicago. She has significant research experience and knowledge in the biotechnology and the life sciences industries including work on T cell/HIV interactions.