Sustainability Showcase 2022

By Emma Lardner, Operations Manager at the University of Birmingham and lifETIME CDT Administrator for Birmingham. Earlier this month, lifETIME CDT (Engineered Tissues for Discovery, Industry and Medicine) and the Healthcare Technologies Institute held a Sustainability Showcase event which brought together academics, researchers and students from within the CDT but also from the wider Scientific community …

May 25, 2022

Sweet Seaweed Slumber

By LifETIME CDT Student: Juda Milvidaite (University of Glasgow) Cells, tissues, and organs are fragile – they cannot survive outside of a living body for long. When we need to store or transport biological samples from cancer patients for further research or personalised screening of therapies, we freeze the samples down. Yet, the cycles of …