Anas Niaz

Since its beginnings almost half a century ago, gene sequencing has become indispensable for basic biological research. Thanks to new techniques, tens of thousands of genomes have been sequenced to this day, including the human genome. Traditionally, the process relied on analyzing dozens of DNA fragments in individual reactions. Shankar…

Carbfix is an academic-industrial partnership that has developed a novel approach to capture and store CO2 by its dissolution in water and its injection into subsurface basalts. Once in the subsurface, the injected CO2 reacts with the host rock forming stable carbonate minerals, thus providing for the safe, long-term storage…

Cassyni makes academic video more accessible and useful for researchers and students globally. From entertainment to news, video has transformed many industries. However, researchers and students have not yet seen the full benefits of video. Massive quantities of video are available, but it remains difficult to use as a resource…

We argue that much of sharing online misinformation is due to people simply being distracted from thinking about whether news is accurate, rather than purposeful sharing of falsehoods. As a result, we show that subtly shifting users’ attention to accuracy increases the quality of the news that they share. Accuracy…

The nominating institute iGEM Foundation on the breakthrough: Wright’s Entrepreneurship Programme is a bootcamp for budding student entrepreneurs in the synbio field. We leveraged our network to create a truly global programme spanning regions, and fostered teams working across regions, while driving partnerships between stakeholders and mentors.

Finding and harnessing sources of energy has been a major task in the history of humankind. Similar to the resourceful nature of the sun, man-made nuclear power can produce large amounts of energy from few resources. It includes fusion and fission processes and the pros and cons of fission processes…

The BLCKB Brain Dictionary project is an AI Model that is using neuromarketing data to reconstruct what subjects perceive based on their brain activity captured by EEG.   Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Bio-Tech, Neuroscience.

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Jeyhan Kartaltepe. She talked about her role as project lead of COSMOS-Webb, the largest James Webb Space Telescope program to be observed in its first year of operations and discussed what we…

Teamwork coordinated by Justyna Olko breaks down walls between academia and local communities, combining multidisciplinary, decolonising research with participatory activities that promote language revitalization and ethnic minority empowerment. These endeavours have shown that the use of local heritage languages improves health and well-being and protects against historical trauma, fostering ‘communities…

Creating a fibrous and conductive cathode from a mix of copper, phosphorus, and sulfur served as a catalyst, dramatically speeding up oxygen’s reaction with water. This insight produced batteries that could be charged and discharged quickly and had high capacity, 460 watt-hours per kilogram (compared with about 75 Wh/kg for…