Hydrogels: from Bubble Tea to Cancer Therapy
Have you ever tried Bubble Tea? Take a sip and discover how the tiny balls you are slurping are connected with smart drug delivery systems, breast implants, cancer, and live cells.
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Kenia Fita
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Background in Sustainable Food Systems, currently finishing a MSc in Human Nutrition and Food-Related Behavior. Particularly interested in food literacy, nutritional value chains, and how they can be both linked to a sustainable food system. Avid reader of broad-range science and fiction/non-fiction presenting new perspectives. Creative cook, board game player, and proud Servas traveler.
Alien Encounters (Lost in Translation ep.3)
Lost in translation is a comic about two researchers, Jargon and Jumble, getting into linguistic miscommunications due to the different meanings attached to certain words in their work life as scientists and as normal citizens.
The Invisible Patient: Women’s Health in Medicine & Research
Medical research and practice have historically focused on male physiology, leading to significant gaps in understanding the female body and the potential sex-specific differences in disease presentation and response to treatments. It is important to address and rectify the resulting biases in disease diagnostics and management, and “sex-sensitive medicine” provides a pioneering framework to do so.
Humour Me Some Math! Getting funny with Science Communication
Can scientists use humour in science communication and benefit from increased engagement of the non scientific audience? Can we make math funny?
Bug Issues (Lost in Translation ep.2)
Lost in translation is a comic about two researchers, Jargon and Jumble, getting into linguistic miscommunications due to the different meanings attached to certain words in their work life as scientists and as normal citizens.
Why do we talk differently to different people?
Anecdotes about roommates who change their usual voice, vocabulary and even grammar structure when on the phone with their parents. Social media threads discussing whether it is normal to unconsciously mimic the dialect or accent of the person you are talking to.
Calming the itch: the skin microbiome & atopic dermatitis
“We tried to calm him in every possible way, but he cried and shouted all night”, desperately declared the Coopers about their three-year-old suffering from severe atopic dermatitis. Stories like this are more common than you think in paediatric and dermatologic wards.
Alcohol spirits (Lost in Translation ep.1)
Lost in translation is a comic about two researchers, Jargon and Jumble, getting into linguistic miscommunications due to the different meanings attached to certain words in their work life as scientists and as normal citizens.
Is the world heading back to a pre-antibiotic era?
Doctors often remind us how important it is to complete prescribed antibiotic treatments. But how many of us ever consider that not following these instructions may mean that, in the future, surgeries will become impossible?
A modern pathologist: Artificial Intelligence
Ada, a curious seven-year-old, looks outside the window. It is a relatively humid day in Mansa, a city in northern Zambia, but it appears as though it isn’t going to rain for a couple of hours. Ignorant of the threat lurking around her, Ada happily leaves her house excited to play. Just as she reaches her friends, she suddenly slap
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