Jun 01 2021
Childhood brain tumors are rare but, despite all the progress made over recent years, they are often associated with poor prognoses and low survival rates. Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich are focused on the rapid translation of drugs for use in this field, and the INTEGRA family of products – including VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipettes, the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot, EVOLVE manual pipettes and PIPETBOY acu 2 pipette controllers – have been a part of the lab since its inception. Dr Alexander Beck, the head of the laboratory, explained: “We assess drugs in terms of their efficacy on tumor cells, blood-brain barrier penetration, toxicity and, on a deeper level, the tumor biology.”
Astronomers have identified spiral arm features in a galaxy from the early Universe, suggesting that these arms can develop more rapidly than some theories predict.
There s already a strong link between sleep and memory, and scientists have just found out more about how that relationship works: there are specific patterns of brain activity that open up windows on our past experiences, fixing them in our long-t
On December 24, 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke boarded Líneas Aéreas Nacionales S.A. (LANSA) Flight 508 at the Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru with her mother, Maria. She had her whole life in front of her, the two having just attended her high school graduation ball in Lima the day before, and now they were headed back to Juliane’s parents’ Panguana research station in the Amazon rainforest in a festive mood. The father had warned them not to fly with the airline as it had a poor reputation and record, but it was meant to be just a one-hour flight, so they had booked it anyway. It would be a decision they would learn to regret, and would launch one of the strangest and most inspiring tales of survival against all odds.
Meet the man behind controversial iPhone-cracking company Cellebrite
The digital forensics company beloved by British police is coming out of the shadows as it prepares to go public
23 May 2021 • 6:00am
Yossi Carmil was one of the founders of Cellebrite, an Israeli forensics company
Credit: Cellebrite
Kayleigh Haywood, a 15-year-girl from Measham, Leicestershire, met her killer through Facebook. When her body was found, police used a special phone unlocking device to extract information from her badly damaged and locked smartphone, which helped them track down who she had been messaging and their whereabouts.
This evidence helped uncover her groomer, Luke Harlow and her killer, Luke’s neighbour Stephen Beardman. It also helped clear a suspect who had not been anywhere near the scene at the time of Haywood’s murder.