Posts Tagged ‘medical physics’
Topic of the moment: the artificial heart
A patient heading home after being given an artificial heart has made news headlines. How do they work? Earlier this month, 40-year-old Matthew Green left hospital and headed back home to his family after having his heart replaced with an artificial device made of plastic – the first UK patient to be discharged after having [...]
2011 schools lecture: from X-rays to Antimatter – the science of seeing inside your body
We’re almost half way through this year’s Institute of Physics Schools and Colleges Lecture Tour: How physicists build machines that do what our eyes cannot – see inside the human body. 2011 marks the centenary of Marie Curie winning her second Nobel prize for the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, as well as the [...]
New HIV model suggests killer T cell for vaccine
Limited success in modelling the behaviour of the complex, unusual and unpredictable HIV virus has slowed efforts to develop an effective vaccine to prevent AIDS. A new improved modelling system, developed by Chinese researchers, which attempts to incorporate more of the virus’ random behavioural dynamics, suggests that a particular type of T cell could be [...]
Is physics the iPod or the LHC?
Professor Wakeham, chair of last year’s RCUK Review into the Health of UK Physics was talking at the IOP yesterday about the challenge of physics communication – here’s some of what he said: “There are two dramatically different perceptions of physics and thoughts on the way it should be presented to those who can ensure [...]
