In toxicology & health science focus, Ken Tachibana, Sanyo-Onoda City University in Japan, walks through the long-term effects of exposure to nanoparticles
L. Val Giddings, PhD, Senior Fellow, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, states that gene editing promises to make human industry sustainable*.
Pascale V Guillot from University College London, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health, explains stem cell and gene therapy to treat osteogenesis imperfecta, but is this hype or hope?
The study, published in PLoS Biology, looked at the neurotransmitter in the brain that calculates whether to pursue a task - in other words, motivation.
Here, we learn about Daisuke Kihara, Professor of Biological Sciences and Computer Science at Purdue University, who develops state-of-the-art computational methods for modelling 3D structures of protein complexes.
The study, published in The Lancet Digital Health, found that deep learning tech had an average accuracy of 88% when it came to diagnosing genetic syndromes.
Ute Deichmann of the Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at Ben-Gurion University, explores the role hierarchical causal models have on constancy and plasticity in biology.
A study, published in the journal DNA Repair, finds that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is potentially toxic to mammals - the drug that was previously elevated to the status of miracle COVID cure in some circles.
