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  • How Prevention is Saving Lives

    With BEAT-IT, DR MARK ABELA is helping to determine heart problems before complications develop. Here he explains how and why.…

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  • Differentiation Therapy – changing the way we treat cancer

    Through funds channelled to RIDT by the Alive Charity Foundation, GIULIA VASSALLO EMINYAN is currently researching differentiation therapy – a…

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  • Marijuana & Managing Epilepsy

    Marijuana has been used by humans for over 5,000 years for religious, spiritual, recreational and medicinal reasons. Even so, the…

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  • Clearing a Pathway for Chemotherapy

    A new discovery could lead to chemotherapy becoming more potent by over 50 times in three different cancers – or…

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  • Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Gaming and Beyond

    In the future, games will be able to understand the player and make decisions; yet the technology could revolutionise many…

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  • Art Supports Research

    With just a few weeks left till songstress NADINE AXISA fills Hotel Phoenicia in Valletta with Frank Sinatra ballads, she…

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  • Does Malta Have an Eye-Disease Epidemic?

    Starting in summer 2018, a new project will examine 2,000 subjects and take their DNA samples, to understand how prevalent…

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  • The End of Wasted Energy?

    Running between July 2016 and June 2019, project ‘FLASC’ is looking at ways of creating and storing unused offshore renewable…

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  • The Genes Behind Autism

    Through the Malta Next Generation Sequencing Project, researchers at the University of Malta are trying to understand what genetics tell…

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  • Calculating Traffic – an RIDT funded project

    As more cars hit our already-congested roads, traffic and air pollution will continue to increase. Here, PROFESSOR MARIA ATTARD and…

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