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Technology-Driven Future of Cancer Research
Virtual Jumpstart connected synthetic biologists with cancer researchers to create novel therapeutic approaches Lab-engineered cells are injected into a patient where they latch onto a tumor and deliver a lethal therapeutic payload. Another type of synthetic cells attaches to the inside of a person’s intestines and becomes detectable using ultrasound if they encounter cancerous cells.…
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Earlier Detection of Cancer
How CRUK’s Sandpit Workshops are accelerating breakthrough research in early cancer detection In the United Kingdom, only 25 percent of cancers are detected at stage 1. Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has been holding Sandpit Workshops since 2018 focusing on the early detection of cancer. Sandpits, which are known as Ideas Labs in the U.S., are…
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Coming Together (Virtually) for a Healthier Africa
Scaling a 350-person meeting to 1600+ participants required inventing new virtual networking tools and interactive experiences One thing we love about working with scientists is that they are motivated by trying to make the world a better place. They see problems, such as the need to apply the latest in data science to improve public…
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Coordinating Sustainability Research & Innovation
Future Earth is bringing the world’s climate scientists together in a coordinated way so that precious time and resources are not lost. The organisation recently held a Virtual Summit to get it through a crossroads in its fulfilling its mission.
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Creating Collaborative Science Leaders
How the Global Young Academy is empowering early career researchers to collaborate instead of compete The conference cut-down. It’s an occupational hazard of being a scientist. It’s not unusual for someone to raise their hand and poke holes in your ideas, tell you your experiments can’t be done or, worse, that they’ve already been done…
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KI’s Virtual Journey
When going virtual became the new normal in 2020, our clients and potential clients had to confront the core question: “Can teams of scientists work together and be creative online?”
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