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Brain surface

September 21, 2018
Insight
This amazing image shows the brain surface of a patient suffering with epilepsy.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Focal Point, Health/Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Model for peripheral nerve disease developed in worm

September 19, 2018
News
A team from the US have discovered that the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, develops similar nerve damage to human patients in a new model of a peripheral nervous system disease.Studying transthyretin...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
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Gene signatures help kidney transplant success

September 14, 2018
News
Scientists have discovered a molecular signature for the allostatic load _– or ‘wear and tear’ – of kidneys which could help clinicians understand why some kidney transplants don’t work as...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Physiology
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A biomimetics boom

September 6, 2018
Insight
Biomimetics is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving human problems. Here are some stats reminding us that nature has been an...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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Getting the right exposure

September 6, 2018
Insight
Understanding the totality of environmental exposures from conception onward and what that might do to our health. That is the ambition of exposomics and it is an incredibly tough undertaking...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Environment, Food & Bev, Food and Drink, Geology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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Seeing the whole picture

September 4, 2018
Feature
What makes one patient different from another one? Answering this question is a fundamental prerequisite for personalised medicine – and a multi-omic approach is the only way to get there...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Climbing Mt Peer Review: No shame in second place

August 16, 2018
Feature
In the final of our three part special on the changing attitudes and approaches of publishers, reviewers and scientists to  scientific publishing, Maiko Kitaoka tells us that nothing less than...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Nanomedicine takes on wound dressings

August 9, 2018
News
Nanofiber-based wound dressings loaded with vitamin D spur the production of an antimicrobial peptide, a key step forward in the battle against surgical site infections. The findings by Oregon State...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biotechnology
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Unraveling the Fear factory

August 6, 2018
News
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a circuit in the brain that is necessary for unlearning fear. Published in Nature Communications, the study details the role...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
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Climbing Mt Peer Review: time to go clubbing?

July 30, 2018
Feature
In the first of our three-part series on the changing attitudes and approaches of publishers, reviewers and scientists toward scientific publishing we look at online preprints and journal clubs Assessing...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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