Advancing Ideas Through Partnership: Warwick and NUS

Unlocking Ancient Minting Secrets with Digital Tools

By combining historical scholarship with advanced data science, this collaboration aims to transform the study of ancient coinage, offering new insights into production systems, mint organisation, and regional economic structures. It represents the next step in a growing partnership between Warwick and NUS, bridging humanities and technology to unlock the secrets of the ancient world.

How Cells Shape the Developing Brain

Cell extrusion is a process where unwanted or dying cells are pushed out of a tissue to maintain its health and structure. This is essential for preventing inflammation, infection, or cancer. During embryonic development, extrusion also helps tissues and organs form correctly by removing cells that are no longer needed and allowing others to rearrange. If extrusion goes wrong, tissues can fail to develop properly or become vulnerable to disease.

A key player in this process is Erk, a signalling protein that acts like a messenger, helping cells coordinate their behaviour. Erk activity moves in waves across tissues, and these waves have been linked to extrusion events. However, scientists still do not know exactly how Erk controls extrusion during the earliest stages of brain development.