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Pushing Organocatalysis further

Maurice Michel is known to insiders in chemical  biology for his work on activating enzmyes with small molecules, but recently a major life science company discovered him and singled him out for an award. There are more interests at play than philanthropy or fascination of science. On living, doing Science in Sweden, and being discovered by industry.Read more ...

Human Voices Revalued

Time is mature to unearth the treasure trove of vocal biomarkers. Digital platform brokers and their followers demonstrate what is already possible in health care, if implementing existing technologies, getting consent, and fusing data from doctors’ records, browsers, smartphones and IoT-devices.The latest move is the COVID-19 bet to expand further the emerging market segment. A multi-million project at Luxembourg sets out to avoid mistakes of forerunners, but is struggling with its own weaknesses.Read more ...

Paradoxes and other dysfunctional cases. How autonomous driving works

Mario Trapp, Executive Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems discusses responses of technical systems to rare, unusual, even unknown traffic constellations which require context-sensitive sense-makingRead more ...

Biology meets Physics

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Alain Aspect, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2022

Alain Aspect, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2022 on interfaces between Physics <> Information <> Biology. Read more ...

Systems Biology Applied

Rudi Balling on the need of system theory thinking in using technologies and pitfalls with loose conceptsRead more ...