Backlash threatens biomedicine

Diabetes epidemic threatens Greenland

Tropical Biomedicine

Biomedicine Select

Autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, are complex disorders characterized by an inflammatory response against the body's own tissues. Recent findings reveal new insights into how these diseases are initiated and progress and the factors that contribute to their clinical symptoms. Such work also pinpoints potential new therapeutic targets including the integra...

Biomedicine Select

This issue’s Biomedicine Select highlights new insights into the role of mitochondria in disease. Several new studies implicate abnormal mitochondria in the destruction of neurons of the substantia nigra, the cause of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Meanwhile, an elegant computational approach has enabled identification of candidate genes for several mitochondrial diseases including the mitochondrial...

Budget threatens Max-Planck closures

in the planning of experiments. " We need to develop ways of better training researchers in methodology to avoid this, " he said. Sir David Weatherall, founding director of the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University, said: " For medicine it's a way of life to be supported by the pharmaceutical industry. If you've been looked after by these people, unconscious bias is da...