Transport - Let down again, or revolution?

Let the patient revolution begin.

A hundred years ago George Bernard Shaw lambasted the medical profession as a conspiracy against the laity. Today, disease and doctor centric health systems that are costly, wasteful, fragmented, and too often uncaring are provoking similar ire. Despite the best intentions and undoubted skill of many who work within healthcare, access to care, and its quality, vary markedly, and most people in ...

Revolution to Evolution and Back Again.

Apoptotic cells let down their guard

Unfolding chromatin nets Spiderman doesn’t have anything on neutrophils, which snag microscopic bad guys with webs of chromatin. Wang et al. show that by unfurling chromatin, a histone-modifying protein helps the defensive cells set their traps. During an infection or infl ammation, dying neutrophils spill their DNA to form pathogentrapping NETs (neutrophil extracellular traps). This gooey mate...

The Conversion Revolution: Down, Up and Sideways

Continued progress in quantum communication and optical approaches to quantum computation, requires the development of enabling technologies for photonic quantum information processing [1]. Such resources include high efficiency single photon detectors, high-fidelity single-photon sources, high brightness sources of entanglement, and multiple microsecond optical quantum memories. Here we discus...

Nanosciences : evolution or revolution ?

In miniaturised objects fabricated by modern technology the smallest linear size may be of a few nanometers. In the field of microelectronics, the advantages of such a miniaturisation are huge (increased complexity and reliability, reduced costs). The technology is now approaching the limits where further size reduction will be impossible, except for very novel techniques such as molecular elec...