How psychosocial and behavioural research has shaped our understanding of diabetes

How selenium has altered our understanding of the genetic code.

How zebrafish research has helped in understanding thyroid diseases

Next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized the identification of disease-causing genes, accelerating the discovery of new mutations and new candidate genes for thyroid diseases. To face this flow of novel genetic information, it is important to have suitable animal models to study the mechanisms regulating thyroid development and thyroid hormone availability and activity. Zebra...

How Werner Güth’s ultimatum game shaped our understanding of social behavior

Werner Güth’s ultimatum game played a key role in the development of multiple research areas, several of which are highlighted. © 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Minireview: How Selenium Has Altered Our Understanding of the Genetic Code

Has our understanding of calcification in human coronary atherosclerosis progressed?

Coronary artery calcification is a well-established predictor of future cardiac events; however, it is not a predictor of unstable plaque. The intimal calcification of the atherosclerotic plaques may begin with smooth muscle cell apoptosis and release of matrix vesicles and is almost always seen microscopically in pathological intimal thickening, which appears as microcalcification (≥0.5 μm, ty...