We All Think Differently!

Think differently

Asked to reflect on my own research and career after being selected for the great honor of the Women in Cell Biology Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Research, I found myself contemplating not only how I approach my own science but also how this approach contributes to the larger scientific enterprise. Here I discuss my motivations and their impact on how I conduct my research as one example ...

Technology we need to think differently to survive

The financial climate coupled with the ageing population and the effects of increasing long-term conditions lead to one inevitable outcome for health and care systems. The number of people requiring care will increase significantly, whereas the number able to deliver care (both formal and informal carers) will reduce. Is this a challenge or an opportunity? The problem is not insoluble, moving t...

Thyroid toxicology and brain development: should we think differently?

Thyroid hormone (TH) is essential for normal brain development. The simplicity of this statement, however, dramatically understates the complexity of the issues confronting us as we develop ways to identify factors in the environment that affect TH signaling in the developing brain, and methods of estimating the potential risk to human health of exposures to these factors. There are many known ...

We Think - Therefore We Are

Future developments in AI and robotics, brain interfaces, the Internet and virtual and augmented reality, will make possible new types of integration of humans and machines which will change how we think, learn and live. This paper uses a story about a future scenario involving systems of this kind to respond to crises and disasters to explore the possibilities of collective intelligence and co...

As We May Think