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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see? Dr Joanna Leng , from the University of Leeds in the UK, is a research software engineer who designs and develops the software that allows scientific imaging devices to be used to their full potential. Pinterest.

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Building and training human tendons in the lab

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This field is still mainly at the research stage, as we are limited by the replication capacities of existing technologies, but, if successful, it could overcome the problems of tissue grafting from existing donor tissue.”. Addressing this is the principal focus of the team’s research. Pierre’s research team. Robot shoulders. “We

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Examining the extremely small

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This realisation inspired the creation of the Center for NanoScience (CeNS), a network of nanoscience research groups in Munich, Germany. A key reason for supporting this collaboration is the diversity of research within the field of nanoscience. How are researchers benefiting from CeNS? What does CeNS do?