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An international project aims to create new photonic tools that can access the deep brain and provide further understanding of neurological diseases.
Image by Colin Behrens from Pixabay
Strathclyde University is the UK participant in DEEPER (Deep Brain Photonic Tools for Cell-Type Specific Targeting of Neural Diseases), which is investigating the deep-brain alterations underlying the origin of neurological and psychiatric diseases such as dementia, depression, addiction, schizophrenia and chronic pain.
The four-year study involves 12 partners in eight countries, coordinated by Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), and has received funding of approximately €5.7m from the European Union via the Horizon 2020 programme.
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Fashion is off the hamster wheel, taking a deep breath that is allowing some freshness to seep into the once relentless cycle.
“It is so weird thinking about fashion, and the kind of hamster wheel of fashion, and how we never had a break and always complained about it,’’ Marc Jacobs said during a Milan Fashion Week video chat with Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons post-digital show. “And then you get a break, and you complain.”
Instead, he said, he was taking the moment to watch others, and be inspired.
Milan Fashion Week of mostly womenswear previews for next fall and winter wrapped a nearly all-digital edition on Monday. Only one designer Daniel Del Core, marking his brand’s debut held a live runway show for a small number of guests.
Tattooable OLED anyone? Researchers at University College London have created an OLED that can be applied to skin like a children’s transfer tattoo.
So much like a child’s transfer is it, that it is made on the same type of substrate and applied the same way: wet it, stick it, and peel off the backing paper.
The OLED starts life as a sheet of commercial ‘tattoo paper’ – this is already a laminate of a smooth-surfaced paper called glassine that is coated with a water soluble starchy layer, then topped with a water-resistant layer of ethylcellulose – the latter of which is usually printed on to make the tattoo image.
In a statement, Professor Franco Cacialli (UCL Physics & Astronomy), senior author of the paper, said: “The tattooable OLEDs that we have demonstrated for the first time can be made at scale and very cheaply. They can be combined with other forms of tattoo electronics for a very wide range of possible uses. These could be for fashion – for instance, providing glowing tattoos and light-emitting fingernails. In sports, they could be combined with a sweat sensor to signal dehydration.
“In healthcare, they could emit light when there is a change in a patient’s condition – or, if the tattoo was turned the other way into the skin, they could potentially be combined with light-sensitive therapies to target cancer cells, for instance.
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