Inconsistent cybersecurity practices in organisations pose a threat to the energy sector. Variation in cybersecurity culture, skill levels and training, and over-reliance on regulations and resistance to complex security protocols expose critical systems to threats. A new open-access handbook from researchers from the University of Vaasa, Finland, offers a structured, user-friendly resource to enhance cybersecurity resilience in the Nordic energy sector.

A team of researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Military University of Technology, and the Institut Pascal at Université Clermont Auvergne has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The platform created by the researchers enables the formation and dynamic tuning of photonic crystals with integrated spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and controlled laser emission. The results of this groundbreaking research have been published in the renowned journal Laser & Photonics Reviews.

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is the sixth most deadly cancer worldwide for which no effective targeted therapy exists. Patients need to rely on chemotherapy which is started ahead of surgical interventions in the hope to shrink or control tumors. However, most patients become resistant to certain NACTs, leading to poor outcomes.

To enable clinicians to rapidly test different chemotherapies and determine the best treatment courses, Wyss Institute researchers and their collaborators at McGill University have developed a precision oncology Organ Chip platform that accurately and actionably predicts chemotherapy responses of individual patients with EAC in a clinically useful timeframe.