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 …
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 …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Narina Bileckaja (University of Glasgow) As a young researcher, I tend to evaluate the quality of my work by tracking how many experiments I carried out and the amount and quality of data I acquired. However, I recently started considering what the general public’s opinion about science and research might be. The more …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Ibrahim Erbay (NUI Galway) Inflammation is necessary chaos for survival. Although inflammatory responses provide powerful tools for protection against infectious diseases, the balance between tolerance and rejection is highly important. As this balance breaks, it becomes a driving force for many diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and autoimmunity. Among which inflammatory bowel …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Aleksandar Atanasov (University of Birmingham) Despite the sizeable ethical burden, animal testing is still an essential part of drug development. Trials in living systems ensure therapeutics’ efficacy and, most importantly, the safety of any clinical trials with patients that follow. As a result, despite conscientious efforts across all areas of research, 3.4 million experimental …
The average laboratory uses around five times as much energy as a regular office building, this not only means higher utility bills but also a higher cost to our environment. As society becomes more aware of the negative impact that research can have on our planet, groups like III Eco-Group at the University of Glasgow …