Beyond Biomedicine

Research Misconduct Policy in Biomedicine: Beyond the Bad Apple Approach

maladapted our hunter-gatherer bodies are for the modern times. The chapters on the effects of farming in our diet and, consequently, our jaws and bodies are particularly noteworthy and highly recommended. Finally, the last part explores how our body is coping with our physically comfortable lifestyle with serious consequences to our health and well-being. Age-related disorders notwithstanding,...

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...

Biomedicine Select

Angiogenesis (the recruitment and formation of new blood vessels) may be a limiting step in the growth of tumors. Recent work in animal models of human cancer suggests that even transient angiogenic signals can irreversibly block tumor dormancy, promoting tumor growth. Another report concludes that the production of an-giogenic factors may result from activation of a signaling pathway in the in...