Robotic Bird

Our engineering group has achieved incredible heights by designing this magnificent flying machine. The challenge underlying this invention was minimizing the weight of the robotic bird while maximizing lift from its flapping winds. 

This robotic seagull is 1m in length and weigh even less than ½kg with boasts a 2-meter wingspan. 

  

If we start comparing with real bird, the well known European herring gull is just little over ½ m in length with a wingspan up to one and a half meters and weighs roughly 1kg.

Skin transformed for cancer fight

Dynamic sites reviled us that scientists are working tirelessly to open new possibilities that one day Cancer Patients will be using their own skin cells to fight their tumours.

This study was published in the famous journal Gene Therapy and was focused on dendritic cells and their unique properties, which are responsible to organised a part of their immune response. By showing identifying antigens or markers cells tell the immune system what and where to attack. If they can display cancer markers then obviously the cancerous cells will become the targets.

Experiments conducted in various laboratory showed that these dendritic cells were able to activate both kind of cells, namely those which kill foreign cells and those produce anti bodies.

"Now the very next challenge is to confirm out if these laboratory-generated cells will be competent enough for immunotherapy-based cancer-treatments to be used in the clinic."