Eighteen months ago we wrote about the potential of tablet personal computers to play a disruptive role in healthcare. The iPad is now the […]
Archive for May, 2013
From Invention to Innovation
Wits Enterprise, the commercialisation arm of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, celebrated the achievements of its inventors and innovators earlier […]
A Tale of a Faulty Gene
Dr Mary-Claire King. Copyright: Susan G Komen for the Cure. In 1961 Mary-Claire King was just fifteen when she watched her […]
Can Exercise Lower Breast Cancer Risk?
Yesterday the Cancer Council in Australia announced that the country was gaining the upper hand in the war against cancer, with 60,000 lives saved […]
A Miniature X-Ray Source
Copyright: Macmillan Publishers Sixty years ago, three Soviet scientists published a paper, in Russian, entitled “Study of electronic emission during the stripping […]