In our special feature on blood cancer in issue 65 of Research*eu magazine, we interviewed the CEO of Italian SME Cellply, Dr Massimo Bocchi. He gave us a deeper insight into the company’s novel ex vivo diagnostic system that would be the first ever fully-automated diagnostic system to evaluate the response of fresh tumour specimens to anticancer drugs in a clinical setting. More than a year later, we catch up with him to see how much further along the road to full commercialisation they’ve travelled.

As it enters its 25th year on the web, the CORDIS website has got a great new look! The new design aims to improve your user experience by making it easier to find the information most relevant to you and to highlight the many multilingual articles and publications that bring EU research results to the professionals who can use them and drive them forward.

What happens to those who behave unselfishly and make sacrifices for the sake of others? According to an interdisciplinary study by researchers from Stockholm University, the Institute for Futures Studies and the University of South Carolina, unselfish people tend both to have more children and to receive higher salaries, in comparison to more selfish people. The results have now been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

The project is developing an innovative service that will provide information and alerts to ports and aquaculture sectors to enable real-time crisis management and improve future operations