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Altering Medicine by Cell and Gene Therapy – Falling Walls Circle Plenary Table 2023 The creation of innovative medicines using cells and genes as therapeutic agents greatly profits from the ongoing technological progress. Innovation happens across academia and industry and collaboration in manufacturing, clinical validation and market entry is crucial…

How Forensic Architecture Reveals War’s Secrets Recent military conflicts such as the ongoing civil war in Syria have increasingly moved from the battlefield to urban spaces, rendering citizens as well as civilian structures in densely populated areas highly vulnerable to attacks and catastrophic violence. In many cases, urban conflict areas…

Sidewalk Science Center is hosted 3-5 days a week in public spaces, such as parks, playgrounds and even outdoor malls, allowing participants the opportunity to engage with a variety of hands-on science experiments and team-building exercises meant to encourage questions and strengthen observational skills. When our telescope is out, participants…

The nominating institution ORNL on the breakthrough: Mass production of protective equipment and testing supplies is critical to an effective pandemic response that saves lives by minimizing the spread of COVID-19. Dr. Lonnie Love is leading a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to create scientifically proven solutions that can…

According to Fabiyan Angikath, current methods of hydrogen production involve CO2 emissions and/or are expensive. He, therefore, suggests introducing molten metal reactor technology to produce sustainable H2 production.

Interferometers are instruments that extract information from the interference of waves in order to perform precise measurements. They are widely used in science and industry, with applications ranging from quantum physics to bio-medicine, as well as astronomy, chemistry and optometry. Nathalie Picqué is a research group leader at the Max-Planck…

The Neuro-G Project engages in neuroscience education and advocacy in Nigeria, addressing challenges like dropout rates, science enrollment decline, lack of neuroscience background in secondary schools, gender disparity, misconceptions about neurological diseases, and scarcity of neuroscience professionals. Targets include secondary school students in remote or disadvantaged areas, victimized students, and…

Vojtěch Nosek is the CEO and Co-founder of UNICO (www.unico.ai), a Prague-based tech innovations company. UNICO’s in-depth knowledge of the patent landscape, its interdisciplinary research network, and its own AI-powered EXPERTS.AI platform make it a front-runner in delivering technological innovations based on ground-breaking science. EXPERTS.AI is a smart AI-based matchmaker…

Precision Prevention in Health: The Power of Genomics – Falling Walls Circle Plenary Table 2023 As we are living through the 4th industrial revolution, the congruence of technological advances in genomics and the digital revolution has the potential to transform healthcare. Genomics can benefit precision prevention and improve human health…

Classic 4 stroke IC engines are relatively huge, heavy, and have more reciprocating parts which cause a waste of energy to keep reciprocating parts moving and to carry a heavy engine inside a vehicle. Jaloliddin Yunusov, therefore, proposes reducing the total weight, removing reciprocating parts, applying a rotary gas controller…