Twice last week, Lorenzo Ramos-Mucci received a coolbox with macabre contents: bloodied bones chilled on ice.
The hips, donated by an osteoporosis sufferer who had undergone replacement surgery four hours earlier, were degrading fast. To save time, his colleague walked the 15 minutes to the Harley Street clinic where the operation was done to retrieve the cooler and bring it back to his new London laboratory.
“The biggest advantage of working here is that we are close to clinicians and surgeries and that delivery time saved, even into the minutes, makes a difference,” Ramos-Mucci said.
He is a senior scientist at Relation Therapeutics, a three-year-old company that uses artificial intelligence to analyse the proteins of diseased cells which can then be used to find potential
