Author: Michael Cook
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Discovering Surprisingly-Strong Hydrogels From Everyday Ingredients
A few years ago we had an amazing postdoc at UH (Bin Zhang, now at Brunel) working on a commercial project. One of the challenges we needed to address for the client was how to make super-strong hydrogels in a setting without normal laboratory facilities like fume cupboards. Hydrogels are very useful. They’re jelly-like materials…
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THE CLAW
We’ve made a useful auxilliary gripper for use in Opentrons OT2 robots Opentrons robots are really useful to automate pipetting tasks. The robot has a deck which you fill with the bits and pieces you need for the experiment, then the robot squirts liquids around for you. However, sometimes it would be useful to move…
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Making Medicines with AI-Guided Robots
In our latest archived paper research we report the development of a robotic formulator which can semi-autonomously discover new pharmaceutical formulations. In this joint effort with David Shorthouse (UCL School of Pharmacy) we developed a process whereby a large (ca 8k) space of potential formulations is streamlined into a representative design space, then made by…
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Recombinant Antibody Database Launches
One of our group members, Niamh Haslett, has recently seen her PhD have an impact outside of our usual research activities, through her time working with an Animal Free Research UK (AFRUK) initiative to create a database of recombinant antibodies: https://antibodies.humanspecificresearch.org/ Why we think this is interesting: Antibodies are proteins which living things produce to…
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The group jet off to sunny Edinburgh 12.12.24
Hessam, Li and honorary member Abhishek are at Drug Delivery to the Lung, sneakily talking about spraying stuff up noses and avoiding the lung all together. Hessam gave his first major oral presentation on trying to spray viscous materials up the nose to form retentive medicines. He was terrified but did a sterling job regardless.…
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