Transplanting microbiota into rats is sufficient to induce the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease
Leah Fogarty reports on memory deficits observed in rats, similar to those found in Alzheimer’s disease, following microbiota modulation.
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Seeing double: A dive into the world of digital twins
Alice Banfield weighs up the potential uses of digital twins in personalised medicine and explores the ethical implications of this.
Female contraception: The pill laced with indifference
Ester Paolocci discusses inadequacies in oral contraceptive prescriptions for women, advocating for rigorous testing.
Make ICUs less like factories
Will Reilly explores how environmental factors affect ICU design and patient recovery, emphasising the need for a reimagined approach.
A National Learning Healthcare Service: The future of the NHS?
As the NHS celebrates its 75th birthday, Jessica Morley discusses challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
How WEIRD biases reduce diversity in behavioural science
Bessie O’Dell explains how bias towards people from Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies skews research.
The Radcliffe Department of Medicine Four Year DPhil Scholars Programme
The Radcliffe Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford is a large, multi-disciplinary department, which aims to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges by integrating innovative basic biology with cutting edge clinical research. The department has internationally renowned programmes in a broad spectrum of sciences related to medicine, including: Cancer Biology Cardiovascular Science Cellular and Clinical…
Blame it on the Bacteria
Figuring out the composition of the bacteria in the gut, mouth, and on the skin is very fashionable at the moment, with papers regularly linking the microbiome to an unexpected disease. However, I can’t help but wonder if microbiotics isn’t the magic wand we were hoping for. Will it stand the test of time? Studying…
Research finds promising technique to combat cancer drug resistance
Multi-drug resistance is the main challenge for chemotherapy – it is the leading cause of tumour recurrence and cancer metastasis. The root of the problem: efflux pumps on the cell surface which serve to protect a cell by pumping out unwanted toxic substances. Unfortunately, these come as a disadvantage when targeting cancer cells with drugs….
The Quantum in Cancer
Quantum technologies to treat it; quantum physics to create it? An ambitious agreement: Tokyo, December 13th, 2016 The agreement is signed, five organisations join forces. Equipped with accelerating lasers and deflecting, superconducting magnets, they will develop a Quantum Scalpel. Their ambition is zero cancer deaths, says Toshio Hirano, chief of the National Institutes for Quantum…