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21st Century Medicine: Breakthroughs and Challenges
Nov 17, 2008 at 05:30 PM

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26-27 November 2008: RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London

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Some of the most exciting research in the world is being undertaken in the field of medicine. Many challenges exist in identifying disease at the earliest possible stage and preventing and treating cancer, congenital, degenerative and infectious diseases - and increasingly, lifestyle-induced diseases such as diabetes.

Even greater challenges exist in bringing affordable, safe medicines to a wide population, and in enabling the elderly to remain active and maintain their faculties for as long as possible.

Hear what international experts think the greatest medical challenges are, and how they can be met using the new technologies to unravel the secrets of illness and create the means whereby we can all live longer, healthier lives.

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Molecular trees branch out into biosensing
Nov 20, 2008 at 09:25 AM

biotin-avidinResearchers in South Korea have recently constructed nanotubular structures from branched hydrocarbon chains with attached pyrene groups. By adding cyclodextrins the branches rearrange from a vesicular structure to nanoscale tubes with cyclodextrin "cuffs". The development is interesting in that the pyrene groups fluoresce and the cyclodextrin "cuffs" can be further linked with a variety of functional groups that "dangle" from the tubes into solution and can thus form useful surfaces for biosensing.

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Spinning collagen for synthetic cartilage
Nov 20, 2008 at 09:21 AM

10_electrospun collagenCollagen fibres in the natural cartilage protecting the knee are aligned in a parallel orientation. Achieving this configuration, and therefore optimum functionality, in a synthetic cartilage is not easy because collagen is a natural polymer that is difficult to control.

Now a student at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya's School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering at Terrassa has managed to achieve this desired effect using electrospun collagen nanofibres.

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