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S&S Insight Talk  

New MRI technology transforms cancer detection

Science and Society's Insight talk recently by Claire Strickland, daughter of founder Dr Paul Strickland, who was talking about the pioneering work carried out by the Paul Strickland Scanner Centre. Claire believes the patient always comes first when delivering high quality care. 
Did you know that Mount Vernon Hospital does not have an imaging centre? Paul Strickland Scanner Centre carries out all CT, MRI and PET-CT imaging for Mount Vernon. The charity is actively researching and working on using AI to speed up the imaging work which will hugely benefit the patients.
We recorded the talk so WIs can request to use and show their WIs, free of charge. A fascinating subject and WI members who use this hospital might even think of asking Claire and Jo the chair of the board of volunteers to go to their WI and expand further on this subject.

NOBEL PRIZE news

Science and Society would like to congratulate and bring to the notice of members the Nobel Prize awarded in Chemistry. Advances in areas that will probably affect us all.

U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones, yielding advances in areas such as drug development.

Half the prize was awarded to Baker "for computational protein design" while the other half was shared by Hassabis and Jumper "for protein structure prediction", said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which makes the award

The future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Pesticides - Why do we use them?
The slideshows from I&D Day 2024

Click on the links below to read these fascinating documents from our 2024 I&D Day presentations.  

2024-03-12 What's our future with AI_ - Women's Institute STEM day.pdf
Pesticides - why do we use them, what are the risks and alternatives_SM COOK and LM FIELD_RRes_2024_WI.pdf

I& D Day 2024 - Information about some of our esteemed speakers:

Dr Jeni Tennison

Dr Tennison talked about how Artificial Intelligence is affecting and will affect all our lives in the future and how women will be most adversely affected. There will be many ways in which AI can make improvements but she emphasised the need to be wary of its use in scams including deception by voice mimicry, to obtain personal information.

Dr Jamie Cragg FLS

Dr Cragg is Aquarium Curator and Living Collections Manager at the Horniman Museum.  He told us about his work to restore and regrow reef- building corals damaged by bleaching, overfishing and the rise in ocean temperatures. He said he feared that some reef systems have been irretrievably damaged.

Dr Sam Cook

Dr Cook gave an illustrated talk on research into the use of pesticides on farmed crops and the development of alternatives that are less harmful to wildlife and the environment whilst helping to increase crop yields to feed a growing world population.

Prof Steve Burnage

CEng CEnv FSOE FIMechE  - Professor Burnage spoke about the use of hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels in domestic heating, transport and across the industry.

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Pesticides

Why do we use them?  What are the risks?  What are the alternatives?  Click the link below to view the presentation from the 2024 I&D Day.

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