Patients with complicated medicine regimes often find it hard to keep track of which pill is which, since most pills are only identifiable via tiny engravings. This is especially true for those who are visually impaired. A new android app called TruScan from TruMedicines hopes to help end this confusion by enabling patients to identify their pills audibly via their smartphone.

In the UK, every year, around 19,000 cyclists are killed or injured in road accidents. We have already seen innovative safety wearables such as the Skull Cap and Hovding looking to reduce this figure — acting as alternative headgear that could encourage more riders to protect themselves. Now, multinational car manufacturer Volvo is doing its bit too, with Volvo LifePaint — a highly reflective temporary spray which is invisible in the daytime but becomes illuminous at night, by reflecting the light from headlights.

Humans need to communicate with each other in order to get things done – at work and at home. But so do the cells inside our bodies, which transmit messages from their outer walls to their inner nucleus. These messages prompt them to take immediate action. Now, it turns out that if cancerous cells don’t receive certain messages, the spread of cancer throughout the body can be halted. How? Israeli researchers have come up with a method of shutting off the overflow of information that creates cancerous mutations.

Una vez acordada su reestructuración financiera por 2.605 millones de euros y cerrada la venta de sus tiendas propias en varias autonomías a DIA, los centros vascos contraatacan bajo el modelo de franquicia y abrirán 100 establecimientos este año.