High-end silicone, human like with realistic skin, hair, flexible joints. Not a description of Donald Trump, but features of commercially available ‘love dolls’. A ‘sociable robot’ is a socially intelligent robot that interacts with another person in a human-like way, which once advanced enough, will have the capacity to befriend humans. But what...

Cancer Immunotherapy is rapidly becoming a clinical reality. Gearing the host’s own immune system to target and kill cancerous cells would provide a potent therapy, capable of not only targeting cancer cells with efficiency and accuracy, but attacking them with memory. Just as vaccination therapy provides memory against foreign protein sequences of...

The year is 2017, in the west, a co-cultural storm brews that will revolutionise the way that we view nutrition. Developments in metagenomics and metaproteomics, the techniques we use to monitor and understand the bacterial residents of our guts,  have revealed the unique super-organism in each of us. These are techniques that allow fast identification...

On November 24th 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, a now near-biblical text that would redefine pre-existing beliefs, scrap the notion of Nature’s providence to mankind and punt humanity out of the center spot of creation. Darwin’s theory of natural selection irrevocably changed our perception of natural history, a seminal work...

Bluedot festival is a rare gemstone that inhabits the interface of Science and Culture. Winner of ‘New Festival on the Block’ and ‘Mind Blowing Spectacle’ in its debut year, Bluedot festival is an interstellar and long overdue concept festival that sets out to achieve unity in an exquisite portrayal of humanity through music, art and technology. Their...

The development of new innovative technology enables the advancement of the research and discovery process, and scientific thinking as a whole. For example, it’s hard to conceive of a biomedical sphere untouched by the blessing of PCR or DNA sequencing. Technological advancements not only offer solutions to existing obstacles, they open up new avenues...