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Natalia Dave and Isabelle Vernos, Centre for Genomic Regulation outline how LIBRA tackles gender imbalance in European life science research.

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a method of killing cells which utilizes a photosensitizing drug (usually a porphyrin of some type), light within the visible light spectrum of a wave length consistent with absorption characteristics of the specific sensitizer being used, and oxygen in tissues. These 3 factors have to...

The King’s Fund has revealed NHS spending across a number of areas is expected to be cancelled or delayed due to money difficulties

Welcome to this summer edition of Open Access Government – North America Analysis. In this supplement we highlight several articles from organisations within the U.S and Canada. We focus on topics such as healthcare, the environment and energy, highlighting a couple from each country. The U.S section starts with an interview...

Associate Professor of Medical Genetics, Silvia Deaglio, highlights the research strides being made in the fight against chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Manuela Côrte-Real outlines how yeast can clarify the regulation of cell death pathways and provide new therapeutic strategies for human diseases

Vittorio Cristini and John Lowengrub presents insight into the self-organizing morphogenesis and how it can be instigated by multimodal feedback control. Huaming Yan1,5, Sameeran Kunche2,5, Anne L. Calof3,4,5, Arthur D. Lander2,3,5, Vittorio Cristini6, John Lowengrub1,2,5 1 Dept. of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 2 Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of...

Hazardous asbestos waste causes serious problems in communities in the U.S., Ian A Blair, Penn Superfund Research and Training Program Center details

The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) explain how SAFE-T DIKI is advancing research into drug-induced kidney injury

Professor Colin Suckling discusses heterocyclic chemistry research and how it makes a difference. Because I work on chemical biology and medicinal chemistry, most of the Special Reports that I have written deal with science on the interface of chemistry and biology. But in offering perspectives bedded in the field of...

Researchers and governments have given their views and feedback on the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme as it reaches the halfway mark

The human genome is composed of over 3 billion letters, here Dr Yuval Ebenstein, Principal Investigator, Tel Aviv University sheds light on it.

Ageing and age-related morbidity are unavoidable, but research to understand and alleviate age-related health issues is the need of the hour to ascertain healthy-ageing. Dr. Nirmal Robinson, Principal Investigator at the CECAD Research Centre discusses.

Dr. Christopher P. Weis of the National Institutes of Health, shares with Editor Laura Evans the dangers of long term asbestos exposure

Dr. Lisa Halvorson, U.S. National Institutes of Health discusses the importance of gynaecologic research to develop new treatments and keep women healthy

Chief Executive Hilary Evans highlights how Alzheimer’s Research UK is helping advance dementia research, but warns there is still more to be done

Academy of Finland’s Jarmo Wahlfors shares how key players have developed a growth strategy to ensure a coherent approach to Finnish health research

EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety

Program Director, NCI Experimental Therapeutics-Clinical Trials Network (ETCTN), National Institutes of Health

European action on HIV and viral hepatitis is at a necessary turning point to meet 2030 SDGs, writes Dr Masoud Dara of the WHO Regional Office for Europe 2030 is a milestone year for world leaders, and for all of us, as our action to end the AIDS and hepatitis...