Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast are transforming wind turbine blades, which are set to be landfilled or incinerated, into footbridges that can hold the weight of a 30-tonne digger.
“This innovative, personalised, and sustainable approach, provides the healing needed for the diabetic foot ulcers, to avoid any complications, and enables doctors to monitor the healing constantly.” Professor Dimitrios Lamprou
Dr Pal Schmitt, an expert in marine renewable energy working collaboratively with experts in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s, has been accurately recreating waves using the supercomputer.
Produced by 3D bioprinting, the scaffolds slowly release antibiotics over a four-week period to effectively treat the wound.
“We are excited about the new insights that this study provides, which explain how the retina is damaged during the early stages of diabetes”. Professor Tim Curtis
The evolution of land plants caused a sudden shift in the composition of Earth’s continents.
A new clinical trial researching treatment for patients with sight loss as a result of diabetes has shown a type of laser treatment to be both cost effective and non-invasive, offering the best option for patients and healthcare providers.
“one of the darkest and most hidden results of the pandemic, the true effects of extreme lockdown and confinement on prisoners and ultimately, on the public .” – Mark Johnson User Voice
MERGE, will discover and characterise new genetic risk factors for male breast cancer by analysing DNA from 5,000 men.
While the majority of Service leavers make a successful transition to civilian life, a minority are known to struggle.
