Easter 2006
Wireless acoustic sensors
Contacts: Dr Adrian Stevenson & Professor Chris Lowe, Institute of Biotechnology The platform technology, developed at the Institute of Biotechnology, is based on a wireless acoustic sensor for use in biomedicine as a diagnostic monitoring system, or as a real-time sensor in the food, beverage, fermentation, life sciences, environmental, water, military or security industries. It may…
Potential cure for TB: How to create a viable business
Contacts: Professor John Archer, Genetics Mentor: Julian Hickling, Working in Tandem More information: http://www.cambridge-mit.org/cgi-bin/default.pl?SSSID=532 Tuberculosis is widespread as a disease of developing countries and poor people within developed countries, killing at least 2 million people per year, with 8.8 million new cases in 2002. The main treatments for TB involve a complex 6-9 month course of up…
Creating value by combining a multitude of traffic information to
Contacts: Michael Simmons & Professor Peter Landshoff, Centre for Mathematical Sciences Mentor: Caren Weinberg More information: http://www.ntdf.org.uk Organisations in the UK collect data on travellers in a variety of different ways, but most do not have enough data to make accurate predictions. For example, although most of us know that the roads are busier when it rains,…