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Chemistry: The growing body of work on signaling within bacterial communities
Emily Weinert, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Emory University discusses an aspect of chemistry that concerns the growing body of work on the human microbiome
Neocytolysis: When young red blood cells die first
International researchers are investigating the molecular processes involved in premature clearance from the circulation of young blood cells formed at high altitude after a descent
New food production systems need sustainable energy worldwide
Swedish Surplus Energy Collaboration explain the reasons as to why sustainable energy worldwide is a requirement if we are to continue producing food in the future for an ever-growing population
Why funding fruit fly research is essential for the biomedical sciences
Andreas Prokop, Head of the Manchester Fly Facility, explains how fruit fly research generates knowledge important for understanding many human diseases
Food Parks – innovative production of food
SSE-C Swedish Surplus Energy Collaboration SLU provides a fascinating insight into the innovative production of food in Sweden, as well as the importance of fostering healthy environments for all people.
New food production systems need sustainable energy worldwide
Sustainable energy is a crucial requirement for the future of food production. Here Håkan Sandin discusses the requirements of energy for agriculture.
Rediscovering observations of the environmental factors affecting tissue regeneration in aquatic species
Graciela A. Unguez, PhD, Professor of Biology and student Bahiyyih Mitchell at New Mexico State University explore the environmental factors affecting tissue regeneration in aquatic species
Public, private, or a mix? How to best finance infrastructure
The UK must improve the way it decides between infrastructure finance options if it wants to pick the best value finance options, argues Graham Atkins from the Institute for Government
The UK government is planning for £242 billion of public and private infrastructure investment between 2016/17 and 2020/21 (see fig....
Healthy food and environments for all people in Sweden
In this special report, SSEC (Swedish Surplus Energy Collaboration) focus on their exciting and successful work concerning the production of both healthy food and environments for all people in Sweden
SSEC (Swedish Surplus Energy Collaboration) is a research and development programme at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, that began...
The impact of stroke in young people
Jukka Putaala from the European Stroke Organisation outlines the effects of stroke in young people compared to stroke in the older generation
Using surplus heat to create healthier environments
Surplus heat from cities and industry can help create healthier environments. The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences’s Håkan Sandin explains
Obesity, liver cancer, metastasis: Future consequences for Europe
Mathias Heikenwälder at the German Cancer Research Center warns of the impact of modern lifestyles and the obesity epidemic on liver cancer and metastasis
Alterations in lifestyles over the last decades, including high caloric diets combined with sedentarism, have increased the worldwide incidence of overweight and metabolic syndrome, characterised by...
Advanced practice provider emergency ultrasound pathway
Virginia M Stewart at FESPA outlines the importance of guidelines for delivering emergency ultrasound treatment
As per the August 2012 American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Emergency Ultrasound (EUS) section: “There are no definite protocols for training that have come from their distinct specialties (as of yet), therefore section members...
Thyroid cancer figures inflated by overdiagnosis
Research has revealed between 50 and 90 per cent of cases of thyroid cancers in women are estimated to have been overdiagnosed…
Research carried out by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the Aviano National Cancer Institute, Italy, has revealed the growing epidemic of thyroid cancer in...
What GDPR means for data protection
Sébastien Houzé, Secretary General of FEDMA asks what happens now the General Data Protection Regulation has been adopted...
The European co-legislator reached an agreement on the General Data Protection Regulation in Strasbourg on the 15th December 2015. While the formal adoption still remain to happen, the rest of the world can start working...
GDPR adopted: what now?
The European co-legislator reached an agreement on the General Data Protection Regulation in Strasbourg on the 15th December 2015. While the formal adoption still remains to happen, the rest of the world can start working on what it actually means.
We will have two years to dissect these new rules,...
It’s the ‘content’ of cells that matters in biomedical research
One of the most remarkable things about life on earth, in all its forms, is how cells often only tens of microns in diameter have evolved to carry out the variety of tasks that they do. In multicellular organisms, the situation is even more complicated, as different cell types...
Liver cancer: Future scientific and clinical challenges and forthcoming problems in Europe
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) reflects the most common primary liver cancer as well as the 2nd most common cause of cancer related death in humans worldwide. In most cases HCC is caused by chronic liver damage that is either induced by chronic viral infections (e.g. Hepatitis B or C viruses),...
How the zebrafish is driving regeneration research
Christopher L Antos, Group Leader at the DFG-Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden explains how Zebrafish research is a vital tool to help understand organ and appendage regeneration.
Injuries from trauma, ischemia and amputation can result in the permanent loss of an organ and limb function. The regeneration of many vital...
