For the past decade, Marco Stampanoni and his TOMCAT team at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) […]
Posts Tagged ‘Design’
The Science of Sure
According to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, “a patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product […]
Making a Pact
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and Washington University in St Louis have just published a paper in Nature Communications in […]
What a Great Idea!
Not too many people know that the world’s first digital laser was invented in South Africa, or that in the 1980s two […]
Seeing the Light
At a congress hosted last week by the Optical Society of America in Florida, researchers from the Politecnico of Milan in Italy presented a […]
Dual-Modality Imaging Gathers Momentum
There is compelling evidence that mammography has been successful in early detection of breast cancer in healthy women. However, in premenopausal women […]
A Brochure for Aceso
Two months ago we mentioned that work had started on a marketing brochure for our dual-modality Aceso system and emphasised it was […]
Not Just Moonshots
The term “moonshot” was coined by Google X, the secret research division at Alphabet, to describe a technology with three attributes: groundbreaking; […]
Of Testing and Cartoonists
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has published standard IEC 60601-1 for medical electrical equipment that mandates general requirements for basic safety and […]
To Patent or Not to Patent? That is the Question!
Sixteen years ago I contributed an editorial to the South African Journal of Science with the same title as today’s blog. In […]