ERA is a digital repository of original research produced at The University of Edinburgh. The archive contains documents written by, or affiliated with, academic authors, or units, based at Edinburgh that have sufficient quality to be collected and preserved by the Library, but which are not controlled by commercial publishers. Holdings include full-text digital doctoral theses, masters dissertations, project reports, briefing papers and out-of-print materials.
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Synthetic biology approach to monitoring transient interactions between cancer and immune cells
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-28)Immune cells play an important role in tumour growth and progression, as well as establishment at metastatic sites. Although inherently, immune system is designed to locate, target and eliminate malignant cells, ... -
Regulation of topological entanglement in ring polymers
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-28)Entanglement abundance and complexity can be both beneficial and detrimental to the biological and mechanical function of polymers. In living organisms, for instance, DNA entanglement is so impactful that its proliferation ... -
Insect neuroethology of reinforcement learning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-28)Historically, reinforcement learning is a branch of machine learning founded on observations of how animals learn. This involved collaboration between the fields of biology and artificial intelligence that was beneficial ... -
Letters into exile: narratological strategies and identity-forming storytelling in the post-war correspondence of the Ernst Levin Collection (1946-1962)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-28)This thesis aims to contribute to the field of epistolary research, research on ego-documents as well as cultural and literary studies of the fin de siècle, the interbellum period and the post-World War Two era in ... -
Development of microfluidic devices for the separation of blood plasma from capillary samples
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-28)Point-of-care devices have the potential to revolutionise healthcare as we know it. Sensing platforms capable of performing clinical tests rapidly and at the site of a patient can facilitate early diagnoses and enable ...
