Novartis has licensed Google’s new ‘smart lens’ technology in a deal that will see its eye health unit Alcon work with the technology company develop new types of contact lenses. The technology combines non-invasive sensors, microchips and other miniaturised electronics which are so read more »

Professor Stephen Bloom, from the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London, was knighted for services to medical science. Sir Keith O’Nions, Rector of Imperial College London, said: “Steve, as a clinical academic, has pioneered new approaches to tackling obesity and diabetes – read more »