Bioinspired technology: from cochlear implants to an artificial pancreas
Biology is inspiring technology, which in turn replaces biology. This global trend towards ageing populations, less active lifestyles and fast-food diets, is leading to more cases of, and earlier onset of, chronic conditions such as Type 2 diabetes a....
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Alzheimer's disease is caused by abnormal clumps or aggregations of proteins in the brain. Simon P”psel is about to embark on PhD work on a protein that might help us to treat this devastating disease, and Nobel Prize winning biochemist Aaron Ciech....
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An important and wide-ranging view of the state of the human-world's health for the Director of Disease Monitoring WHO Collaborating Centre Professor of Epidemiology University of Pittsburgh
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Some of the strongest evidence that lung cancer risk variants are common in the general population appears in Nature and Nature Genetics, although the three papers differ on whether the association is direct or mediated through nicotine dependence. W....
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One of the biggest challenges faced by pathogens in their bid for survival is the host immune response. Within an infected individual, pathogen populations face direct attack by the different processes of the immune system; at a community level, immu....
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Ruth describes a variety of ways of testing medical procedures and responses to drugs without using humans by examining the limits of scientific research and exploring the benefits of using model organisms.
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