Apple’s Event that Never Was…

enter human clinical trials fail because they are unsafe or ineffective, providing reinforcement to those who argue that animal experiments are a waste of lives and time.

How will this affect America’s drug pipeline? Will it be faster? According to the American bioengineering company, InVivo Biosystems, the change will mean less red tape and a quicker, more

Organs-on-chips are systems containing engineered or natural miniature tissues grown inside microfluidic chips grown in a lab and represent a possible avenue for drug testing without the use of animals. All sorts of organs can be grown, but independent of each other. According to the FDA’s chief scientist, the agency is in favour of trying to move away from animal testing—when other approaches are ready. Wendy Jarret, CEO of Understanding Animal research, an animal research advocacy group based here in the UK, isn’t as pleased with the change as PETA, claiming non-animal methods cannot capture a systemic picture of the effect of a new drug on the body. She argues that you can drop a new drug onto a dish of liver cells and see it doesn’t damage them, but this doesn’t tell you if the same drug may damage someone’s brain and therefore all the ways a drug may put a human trial participant at risk.

This change in legislation is currently only in the U.S; however, is the EU or UK to follow?

Edward discusses the new Apple products that were surprisingly announced last week.

Edward Sutton Head of Sciene and Tech

Last week Apple unveiled a range of new products, but not in their usual format.

Press releases on Tuesday and Wednesday revealed new M2 Pro and Max Macs’ and the revival of the HomePod.

The new MacBook Pro’s and Mac Mini are a familiar design, now updated with the new M2 series of chips. This new power is great for professionals who really want to push their workflows to the max. With improvements across the board, these new chips are benchmarking incredibly high. The Mac Mini has had the biggest update with the option to have an M2 Pro Chip giving it more power than the M1 Ultra Chips from last year. There are a few glaring Mac omissions, however, which haven’t had some love recently. The Mac Pro is the last product that hasn’t been updated to Apple Silicone and is therefore overdue an update. The other is the iMac which is still on the M1 chip; still a brilliant chip but with newer options available, it’s more of a tough sell. The biggest surprise of these announcements was the return of the HomePod, which was discontinued in 2021. The smart speaker has a slightly new design, new chips, and sensors. Most importantly, it works with the new

The new smart home standard “Matter”, which will hopefully link all smart home devices” smart home standard “Matter”, which will hopefully link all smart home devices and accessories together. The standard came out of a collaboration between Apple, Google, and Amazon and hopes to eliminate the need to “pick an ecosystem” as everything should play nicely with everything else –in theory. The smart home is still a fledgling frontier that is yet to have truly widespread adoption so this new standard seems more like future proofing for that day when we all might ask Siri to turn on our lights.

These new products might be the start of a very exciting few years for Apple with rumours swirling around a possible AR and VR Headset. This year might also see more challenges to the dominance of the App Store from lawmakers and smaller companies. Apple vs Epic has come to a legal conclusion in the US, but challenges from Epic in the US and abroad are still being pursued. As ever with Apple, we won’t know till it’s announced or happens but there’s still so much tech coming from other companies like Samsung with an event in February. 2023 is shaping up to be a very interesting year for tech.

This year might also see more challenges to the dominance of the App Store from lawmakers”