Engineering the cancer: from biomaterials to on-chip solutions David Caballero; Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal. Cancer is a complex and multifaceted pathology, which is influenced by numerous factors, including the tumor microenvironment (TME). This environment is ... Read more

Foregrounding justice, equity and inclusion as determinants of access to precision medicine: an ethical case study of patient-derived tissue organoids. Dr. Ubaka Ogbogu, Professor and the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Law from the University of Alberta, Canada. Ubaka Ogbogu is a Professor and the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Law. ... Read more

Modeling immune-cancer interactions using a microfluidic 3D culture approach Charles Baroud, Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, France Lab head at Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Cancer immunotherapy is emerging as a transformative approach for treating cancer patients. This approach, which has shown some remarkable successes, leverages the patient's own immune cells to locate and attack the tumor ... Read more

Cellular footprints : examples of emergent memory effects in cell migration. Raphael Voituriez, Laboratoire Jean Perrin / Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée CNRS / Sorbonne Université Living cells actively migrate in their environment to perform key biological functions—from unicellular organisms looking for food to single cells such as fibroblasts, leukocytes or cancer ... Read more

Making Science Work for Refugees and Refugees Work for Science Prof Anthony J. Ryan, OBE, University of Sheffield, UK At Zaatari refugee camp, 80,000 people face daily struggles that many of us cannot imagine are squeezed into six square kilometres. With highly qualified jobs at home, they are forcibly unemployed at the camp but embody ... Read more