Seeing cancer: from proteins to people

Scientists are creating new drugs to treat cancer based on the shapes of molecules driving cancer progression. Tiny changes at the molecular level can lead to large changes in our bodies. To really understand how cancer works, we need to look at what happens inside living cells.

Join Matt on a visual tour of the molecular world inside our cells, and how things can go wrong in disease. New powerful techniques using electron microscopes are showing us more than ever before about the inner workings of cells, letting us see the molecules of life with our own eyes.

Almost everyone here has either had an MRI scan or knows someone who has. But what actually happens inside that noisy scanner?

In this talk, Owen will take you inside the world of MRI to answer three questions: how do scanners see inside the human body, how can artificial intelligence make scans faster and clearer, and how do doctors & scientists check that these new AI tools really work?
Along the way you’ll discover how physics, medicine and AI are coming together to change patient care in hospitals today.