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Q&A: The quest to halt neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease
Penn StateKRISS, Daejeon City, and Quebec sign MOU to lead global quantum innovation
National Research Council of Science & TechnologyThe Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS, President Lee Ho Seong) participated in the "Daejeon-Quebec Quantum Technology Forum" held on June 12 (local time) in Sherbrooke, Quebec, at the DistriQ Quantum Technology Innovation Zone. During the forum, KRISS, in partnership with Daejeon Technopark (Daejeon TP), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with DistriQ to strengthen cooperation in the quantum industry.
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IIT has showcased frontier health technologies at EXPO Osaka 2025
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IITHumanoid robotics, robotic prosthetics, genomics and RNA technologies, nanomedicine, and advanced microscopy were the key themes presented today at the Italy Pavilion at the EXPO 2025 Osaka in Japan during the workshop "Health Technologies: How Science is Transforming Healthcare" organized by the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) during the health week and moderated by the science journalist Akihiko Mori. The event brought together IIT scientists and experts from Italian and Japanese research institutes and companies with whom IIT collaborates on future medical technologies, including Nikon Instruments, RIKEN, Kanazawa University and Bracco. The workshop began with opening remarks from Mario Andrea Vattani, Italy's Commissioner General for Expo 2025 Osaka. This was followed by a discussion on the future of humanoid robotics in an aging society, featuring IIT Scientific Director Giorgio Metta and Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University and the creator of one of the Expo's three thematic areas.
Artificial intelligence set to streamline research for next-generation lithium-metal batteries
University of SurreySimulations reveal the secret to strengthening carbon fiber
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National Heart Centre Singapore pioneers advanced heart valve repair in Southeast Asia with new minimally invasive treatment
SingHealthNHCS has successfully performed Southeast Asia’s first PASCAL transcatheter valve repair (also known as transcatheter edge-to-edge repair), offering new hope to patients with moderate-to-severe and severe mitral regurgitation who were previously considered too high-risk for conventional surgical repair or valve replacement.
Researcher awarded grant to advance balance technologies in virtual reality
Kennesaw State UniversityAdvanced microscopes are allowing a closer look at life
University of CambridgeA team at the University of Cambridge is helping to drive biological discovery through innovation in microscope technologies. Dr Lisa-Maria Needham, who leads the University’s Microscopy Bioscience Platform, said: “We’re in a unique position here in Cambridge of being surrounded by amazing biological research. The thing I love most about developing new microscopes is collaborating with the biologists to create technology with real-world applications in mind. We’re developing microscopes that don’t exist anywhere in the world.”
She added: “Technical staff are often not as highly regarded as researchers, but we’re all scientists. I have an amazing, intelligent, creative team of people who love tech and they’re enabling science that wouldn’t otherwise happen.”
“I believe advances in technology go hand in hand with biological discovery. Scientists get to a certain point in their research where they know there’s something going on, but nothing exists to help them see it. That’s driving technological innovation.”
These images show some of the groundbreaking research supported by Needham’s team.