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Using a computational approach known as deep learning, scientists have developed a new system to classify the shapes of red blood cells in a patient's blood. The findings, published in PLOS Computational Biology, could potentially help doctors monitor people with sickle cell disease.A person with sickle cell disease produces abnormally shaped, stiff red blood cells that can build up and block blood vessels, causing pain and sometimes death.

In an article published in Nature Communications, a group of scientists from Brazil and France describe a new strategy to kill bacilli, rod-shaped or cylindrical bacteria that include several species that cause diseases in humans, such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Helicobacter pylori.

Roger Fleury, Managing Director of resource management software specialist Ardent Solutions, explains why the traditional theories of manufacturing are outdated and how taking a demand driven approach is the answer.

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When Volkswagen unveiled its self-driving 'Sedric' concept this past March, some people couldn't help but chuckle. It didn't have anything to do with the underlying concept, which was that Sedric would be 'the ideas platform for autonomous driving in the Volkswagen Group'. Rather, it was the physical appearance of the car. With a wide body, a vertically elongated windshield and hanging wheel wells covering the tires completely, it looked like not...

Tech leaders have written an open letter to the UN asking for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons which, they state, could permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend.Tesla’s Elon Musk, Google’s Mustafa Suleyman are among 116 of the world’s leading robotics and artificial intelligence pioneers who have come together to write an open letter to the UN asking f...

Friday through Sunday, Aug. 25-27, a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison students hopes it can clock the highest speed on the one-mile SpaceX Hyperloop test track during the Hyperloop Competition Weekend II at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.The UW–Madison team, known as Badgerloop, has excelled in all phases of the competition, which is sponsored by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

Fifty students from ETH Zurich and other Swiss universities want to revolutionise transport. For a race set up by Elon Musk, they have developed a zero emission capsule that could in future transport people and goods through a vacuum tube at almost the speed of sound.

In order to build the new high-speed HS2 railway between London and Birmingham,the government awarded £6.6bn in contracts last week to companies including crisis-ridden construction firm Carillion.Construction work is due to begin next year on new stations, tunnels, embankments and viaducts on the London to Birmingham line, which forms the first phase of the controversial HS2 project. The civil engineering alone is expected to create 16,000...

Would you believe me if I said parents today are six times more likely to know who Justin Bieber is than who Elon Musk is? It’s a sad and frightening reality.However, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) have stepped in and partnered with 44 organisations and venues across the UK to deliver a range of talks, tours and demonstrations designed to inspire children and their parents about careers in engineering.