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A new vaccine could potentially end our battle with HIV.

Researchers at MIT designed HIV-like particles that provoke a strong immune response from human immune cells grown in a lab dish through folding the DNA into a virus-like “DNA origami” structure.

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While the world is waiting for a Covid-19 vaccine, our Chair Marja Makarow believes “a prize fund could prevent the ugly nationalism that threatens the search for one for Covid-19”.

You can find the full article on @theengineeruk.

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“This pandemic means, for perhaps the first time, the eyes of the whole world are on the scientific community. This is its chance to assert its superiority over the falsehoods that threaten its reputation.” Our Chair Marja Makarow weighs on how we could put an end to widespread misinformation through strengthening the public’s relationship with science and scientists on @thetimes.

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Bias against black researchers harms science and the future of research, and disparity hinders our understanding of why BAME communities suffer more from Covid-19. Our Chair Marja Makarow discusses how we could tackle these problems on @financialtimes as she digs deeper into equality in scientific research.

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3 weeks ago

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet was a French natural philosopher and mathematician during the early 1730s.

She can rightly be regarded as one of the principal illuminators of the Enlightenment. Her works helped disseminate the new physics, mathematics and general philosophy of the age!

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Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose crucial work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.

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How does our brain allow us to learn new things and to remember them?

Ila Fiete, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at @MIT uses computational and mathematical techniques to study how the brain encodes information.
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Are you thinking about having your own start-up? Finland could be the best place for you!
Greater Helsinki has been ranked as the world’s fourth most attractive emerging ecosystem for startups in The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2020. #FinlandSolution

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