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While most of the work in the laboratory is focusing on improving transplantation and modulating the immune system in medical settings, due to the unique tools developed in the lab, Benyamin Rosental and his team translate their research to ecological questions. The most unique project we perform in the laboratory…

Deciphering the function of oncogenic KRAS has been a central objective in cancer biology. For over four decades, mutations were thought lock KRAS oncoproteins in a constitutive or persistently active state. Piro Litos work has challenged this assumption to reveal new mechanisms leading to the physiologic inactivation of mutant KRAS…

Scientia Pakistan is a digital Science magazine. We assemble the best, up-to-date, most-absorbing material related to the world of Science with its every monthly edition on a specific topic and daily science news. We make complex topics accessible to a lay audience while keeping the scientific accuracy. Our data is…

Considering a huge gap in basic science education for visually impaired we have developed innovative ways to make science learning fun and interesting for them. We have modified each and every science experiments and concepts to make them accessible for visually impaired. We are in the process of establishing fully…

Nominated by: Catherine Fletcher, Science Creates Ventures Presented by: Neil Morris

Nachtlichter (“Night Lights”) is an app that assists citizen scientists in creating outdoor lighting inventories on unprecedented spatial scales. The app was co-created by a team of German citizen scientists together with researchers at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences as part of the Helmholtz Association’s “Nachtlicht-BüHNE” project. While…

Alejandra L. Arredondo is addressing the issue of low blood neutrophil count, a common side effect of chemotherapy and one which predisposes patients to life-threatening infections. Producing neutrophils in the lab on demand will solve many current limitations of neutrophil transfusions.

The Funlab: Reach the unreachable project aims to use its science bus to reach out to the underprivileged communities all over Egypt through edutainment hands-on activities to spark their passion about science and inspire them to choose science and technology fields for their studies and careers. Another goal is to…

This project seeks to reveal the nature of graffiti prohibition as content-based speech regulation. It will unearth the practice of favoring messages conforming to prevailing narratives and aesthetic standards. This research is very timely given the role of graffiti in the recent “Black Lives Matter” uprisings. The authors’ groundbreaking proposal…

“Fermenting Futures” explores the significance of yeast biotechnology from a cultural, ethical and aesthetic perspective, engaging audiences in the history and future of this under-recognised field and its potential to offer environmental solutions. The art installation explores and physically contains a CRISPR modified Pichia pastoris yeast that is simultaneously able…