The Bristol team's approach makes use of waveguides - channels etched into the chips that provide a path for the photons around the chips like the minuscule wires in conventional electronics.

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The team's approach, which IAVI Vice President Wayne Koff calls very promising, makes use of a three-step process to teach the immune system to keep the HIV virus in check.

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King is leading a team focused on developing robot scientists robots that not only perform automated experiments, but also use an iterative approach to use the data from one experiment to then determine the next experiment by ruling out hypotheses.

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