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SUMMARY:Nano Comes to Life: How nanotechnology ushers physics into biology
 \, transforming medicine\, and perhaps even the future of computing - Prof
  Sonia Antoranz Contera
DTSTART:20220304T180000Z
DTEND:20220304T193000Z
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CONTACT:Timothy Lambden
DESCRIPTION:How and why do we design and build artificial structures and e
 ven machines at the nanoscale using DNA\, proteins\, and other biological 
 molecules or construct hybrid bio-inorganic robots using the building prin
 ciples of biology? Prof Contera will explore how nanotechnology is revolut
 ionising medicine in ways that will have profound effects on our health. F
 rom nanostructures  inspired by biology that can train the immune system t
 o fight cancer or a viral infection\, to nanoantibiotics that can eliminat
 e resistant bacteria\,  to the engineering of tissues and organs for resea
 rch\, drug discovery\, and transplantation. More profoundly\, nanotech fac
 ilitates the study of biology within the framework of physics\, thereby cr
 eating interfaces with other fields (e.g. bioinspired quantum devices and 
 computer science). This will potentially change not only the future of mat
 erials\, engineering and AI\, but also the way we think about life itself\
 , and give us confidence to  pose questions such as “what is intuition?
 ” from a physics lab.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Chemistry Department
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