Four years ago Google bought a British artificial intelligence (AI) company called DeepMind for half a billion US dollars. The founders studied […]
Archive for 2018
Releasing the Brakes on the Immune System
Last week the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to James […]
An Outward Selling Mission to the Middle East
On Monday 1st October, Arab News published a front-page story on breast cancer, stating that women in the Middle East remain reluctant […]
NCI Launches Plans for 2020
A decade ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were successful in […]
Cancer in the Crosshairs
Research Contracts & Innovation (RCI) is the department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that’s responsible for signing research […]
X-ray Interferometry – An Emerging Technology
For the past decade, Marco Stampanoni and his TOMCAT team at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) […]
The End of Paywalled Journals?
Science Europe is an association of European Research Funding Organisations based in Brussels, and earlier this week it published a controversial initiative called […]
Pseudoscience and Debunking Myths
David Gorski is a surgical oncologist at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and Professor of Surgery at Wayne State University in Detroit. He specializes in […]
Welch Found Guilty of Plagiarism
Two years ago we featured a paper by Gilbert Welch (seen right, © The Dartmouth Institute) published by the New England Journal […]
Predicting the Return of Breast Cancer
Clinicians do not currently have a reliable way to predict which patients treated for hormone receptor-positive (HR+) breast cancer run […]