Synthetic synapses get more like a real brain
The human brain easily outperforms today’s state-of-the-art supercomputers fed on just the calorie input of a modest diet, as opposed to the full-scale power station energy input that a supercomputer guzzles through. The difference stems from the multiple states the...
Preparing the NHS for a digital future
As the NHS celebrates its 70th anniversary, LCN academic and i-sense EPSRC IRC Director, Professor Rachel McKendry, is helping to assess how new technologies including genomics, artificial intelligence and bionanotechnology, will shape the future of healthcare in the...
Building antimicrobial bullets from breast milk
Scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) and National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have converted a breast milk protein into an artificial virus that kills bacteria by creating bullet holes in the membrane that surrounds and protects the bacteria....