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Correction to print edition: Imperial and arms companies

This week's front page mistakenly stated that 'students, staff and members of the public protested Imperial's funding of arms companies on Wednesday'.

Imperial is not funding arms companies, but it has received funding from them, and has research relationships with them. There is no indication it has broken the law in these relationships. The error has been corrected in the PDF version of the paper, but appeared in print.

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This Week In Science: what if we could experiment on live human brains?

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This Week In Science: what if we could experiment on live human brains?

We can’t, obviously: the ethical concerns place this firmly in dystopian science fiction territory. Yet, the Yale spinout startup Bexorg is offering something very close. The team created a proprietary system which takes brains removed from deceased people who choose to donate their bodies to science and connect them

By Hanna Irzyk