3D Printing: A technical overview

The first 3D printing technique was reported by the Japanese inventor, Dr Hideo Kodama, which is a process that utilizes ultraviolet (UV) light to cure photo-sensitive liquid and which then becomes a solid 3D object. Charles Hull, founder of 3D Systems, later patented this technique in 1986, calling it Stereolithography Read more…

Webinar: 3 “Ds” of Nanomedicine – Diagnostics, Delivery and Devices

If you missed the live webinar, then don’t miss this opportunity to view it now!  Summer 2022 Topical Lecture  Webinar: 3 “Ds” of Nanomedicine – Diagnostics, Delivery and Devices Please Note: Unfortunately Professor Wojciech Chrzanowski’s live presentation could not be included in this video due to copyright limitations. We hope Read more…

3D printing for cancer patients

The ABC News Report, 14 March 2022: Members may not have seen the recent television coverage of ‘3D Printing for Cancer Patients’ at the Herston Biofabrication Institute. Scott Crowe’s article, 3D printing for radiotherapy, published in our Better Healthcare Technology website (July, 2021), is a member of this research group. Read more…

3D dose prescribing for prostate cancer therapy

The goal of prostate radiation therapy The goal of radiotherapy when treating patients with localised prostate cancer, is to distribute sufficient radiation dose to eradicate the tumour and as little as possible to all parts of the surrounding healthy tissues. Clinicians want to make sure that enough radiation dose reaches Read more…

Immunotherapy and Radiotherapy for Cancer

More than half of all cancer patients receive radiotherapy as part of their treatment and, for patients  receiving radiotherapy alone, the average cure rate is 40%. Cancer cells are killed by X-ray ionisation of the DNA and other associated biological effects. But, under certain circumstances, the radiation exposure can also Read more…

The first NMR biological image?

Part 3: When asked about when he first thought up his NMR technique, he said that it was long before his breakthrough work at Stony Brook University. It was whilst having an eat-out dinner as a student researcher. He was studying then at the University of Pittsburgh and Mellon Institute of Industrial Read more…