In August last year, I published a blog entitled “Machines that mimic human creativity” and showed how an AI algorithm was able […]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
Bioengineering Can Do It!
Ralph Weissleder (seen right, © Wikipedia), who is a professor of systems biology at Harvard and a specialist in interventional radiology, […]
ABUS Firm Raises Another $30 Million
Delphinus Medical Technologies has just announced the closing of a $30 million investment to fast-track commercialisation of its SoftVue automated breast ultrasound […]
Matthew Effect Confirmed
In 1968, Robert Merton, professor of sociology at Columbia University, contributed an article to Science entitled “The Matthew Effect in Science.” His […]
Articles Retracted by Nobel Laureate
On 7 October 2019, Dr Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University received a life-changing call from Sweden to say he’d been awarded […]
Free Access to Research Articles
Fifteen years ago, the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town hosted Dr Harold Varmus, then the CEO […]
China Moving into First Place
It was over six decades ago, in 1955, that Eugene Garfield, while working on his PhD in structural linguistics at the […]
New Director for National Cancer Institute
Fifteen years ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were awarded a […]
Ultrasound and Supercomputing
The European Innovation Council, under the umbrella of its Pathfinder Programme, has recently awarded a grant of €2.7 million to a […]
Turning Cancer on Itself
Fifteen years ago, Samuel Mazin was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, studying the inverse geometry of computer tomographic (CT) systems. He […]