CancerSEEK has to be recognised for its potential in saving millions of lives, but there is a lot to work on in order to be offered in a real-life setting as an alternative or support to other screening tools.
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Clothes That Grow
The Dyson Award is an annual international design competition, running in 23 countries. It is geared towards engineering, industrial design and product design university students, as well as former students who have graduated in the past 4 years. The award – £2,000 for the national competition, and £30,000 for the international – is given to…
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Seafood Shack
What kind of restaurant is a ‘must have’ in a capital facing the sea? Well, of course, a fish restaurant. Close to Cardiff’s medieval castle, in the city centre, in one of the major commercial streets in town (High Street), Seafood Shack restaurant opened in June. This brand new nautical-themed restaurant has more than 200…
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Calabrisella: A Slice of Italy in the Welsh Capital
Italian cuisine is famous all over the world for two main dishes: pasta and pizza. Situated only a few minutes from Cardiff city center (154 Cowbridge Rd E) however, there is a restaurant which offers much more than that: Calabrisella. And I’ll tell you; it is well worth trying.
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Waxworms – a hungry weapon against plastic waste?
Every year, eight million tonnes of plastic waste either end up in the sea, or as landfill. Is there a sustainable solution to stop this cycle? Or, at the very least, to slow it down? Recent research has provided results that might just contain the answer we’ve been looking for.
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The Fountain of Youth – a dream that really could come true?
On March 23rd, the Cell published a paper bearing the news that scientists seem to have found a new drug capable of halting the ageing process. How much truth lies behind this claim?
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The Growroom: IKEA’s answer to sustainable farming?
Back in October 2016, The Growroom was launched by Swedish architects Mads-Ulrik Husum and Sine Lindholm. This was done in collaboration with Space10, IKEA’s Copenhagen-based innovation lab (a community united by the joint purpose of designing an eco-friendly way of living). The structure was later exhibited at the Chart Art Fair in Copenhagen. Since then designers have updated it, with…
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Salmonella – enemy, or ally?
Research performed by a South Korean team at Chonnam National University was recently published, to much excitement. These scientists claim to have discovered a way to flag up cancerous cells, using Salmonella as a “Trojan Horse” of sorts (sneaking into mutated cells via the body’s immune system, and attacking them).
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