Highlights

Braille for Cells

Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering conjure up visions of artificially grown organs, renewing damaged joints and regrowing lost limbs. The photo of ‘the mouse with the ear’ which circled the globe in the summer of 1997 aroused horror but certainly appealed to the imagination. Nearly 15 years later the hype is over because cultivating stem cells to produce the desired tissues is still surrounded by problematic issues. Nevertheless, important progress has been made. By combining biology and technology, regenerative medicine has quietly entered a new phase and more and more applications are reaching the clinic.

ICT & Security
Surfing the web without having your credit card number stolen; trusting that hackers won’t break into the systems of a nuclear power plant: people tend to place their trust in technology for their sense of security. In reality, security is an interplay between technology and man, the latter often being the weakest link.

Entrepreneurs in Wonderland
Their story reads like a Boys’ Own adventure: two young graduates from the University of Twente start a company and conquer Hollywood. The tale is far from over, because Casper Peeters and Per Slycke are looking beyond Alice in Wonderland and Iron Man 2. Their technology is now becoming available for human movement scientists, the automobile industry and the world of computer games.

Spin-off springboard
The UT Campus can now boast an exceptional facility, with the High Tech Factory offering nano- and microtechnology companies a workplace to develop their prototypes and run (batch) production. It is therefore not an ordinary multi-tenant business complex, but a collection of top-notch laboratories with test and production facilities as well as office space.