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Walls are back in vogue around the world, from Mexico to Hungary, Austria, and Greece. This is a paradox of history as physical and conceptual walls are being torn down unceasingly, driven by technology, business, and people’s quest for a better future. Political elites and large parts of the electorate…

The nominating institute Charité on the breakthrough: Petra Ritter has developed “The Virtual Brain”, a computational platform for the virtualization of brain structure and function. It uses novel concepts from computational, cognitive and clinical neuroscience. By using personalized data, patient-tailored models are created to better understand pathomechanisms in the brain,…

Incubators and accelerators are a great way to support early stage startups (and often also first time founders) through education programs, matchmaking, mentorship and financing. With the overwhelming success of programs like Y-Combinator, we saw a surge in programs that are helping founders succeed with their startups. We are discussing…

Aleksey Makarov’s project aims to develop various size replaceable ventilation-installed bioreactors. The bigger ones are meant to be applied in malls, apartment or office buildings, the smaller ones – in a house.

How Epidemiology and Prevention in Young Women Can Achieve an AIDS-free Generation The war against AIDS is fought on many fronts. Whether it is raising awareness about safe sex, developing preventive measures or working with patients in hospitals, on a vaccine or a cure: tackling the largest HIV epidemic in…

The aim of this project is to allow anybody anywhere to do genetic detection, simply rapidly and affordably. To demystify, empower educate and inspire. Tags: Bio-Tech, Citizen Science, Covid-19, Energy, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture, Green Tech, Med-Tech, Open Access, Resilience, Science Communication, Science Diplomacy, Trust in science.

How the Digital Humanities Help Us Think About the Past to Invent the Future The digital technologies of our times have revolutionised not just the way we live and work in the present, they also change our understanding of the past. Today’s archaeologists are equipped with gene sequencers and 3D…

Whilst conventional recycling as we know it – converting waste materials into new materials – brings many environmental benefits, it is still severely limited when it comes to more complex products such as electronic devices. Our increasing and insatiable dependence on these devices, however, makes it even more urgent to…

How an artificial intelligence can become a truly musical companion Music has long been hailed as one of the last frontiers of human creativity; and music is not just composition, but also, and equally important, expressive performance. It is the performers and the musicians who bring a piece to life,…

Theo Issitt’s project investigates gases released by cells in different ‘stress’ conditions to model diseases such as cancer. Changes in these gases can then be investigated in the breath to look for disease.