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Does inflammation help or hinder wound healing and cancer? Wound Healing For a wound to heal without becoming infected by invading bugs, the body must raise an inflammatory response. This involves the mobilisation and relocation of an army of millions of white blood cells from vessels to the wound site. This emergency action prevents us from dying of septicaemia every time we receive even the tiniest cut....
Speaker: Dr Sally Griffin, Bath Spa University Joint RSC/SCI/BSciA Lecture 1 hour CPD Free buffet after the lecture. Contact Hilary Kitchen to book your buffet place by e-mail
With Prof Jim Al-Khalili The recent experiment involving neutrinos supposedly breaking the speed of light barrier between CERN in Switzerland and Grand Sasso in Northern Italy has captured the world's imagination. The reason is that this result violates one of the central tenets of Einstein's special theory of relativity: that the speed of light (about one billion km/hr) is the maximum speed possible in our universe. If...