Removing the Barriers for CKD Management
This week in BMC Nephrology, an article by Neale et al. evaluated the barriers and enablers to the detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the primary… Read more »
12 Mar 2020
Open research pioneers, open perspectives
Open research pioneers, open perspectives
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Genetic uncertainty: Our changing understandings of genetic health data
The more we discover about the human genome, the more we understand how changes in its sequence influence our health and disease. For subjects who had their… Read more »
Strengthening public private partnerships in health in Africa: right timing; challenged beyond capacity or both?
The role of the private sector in attaining the objectives of the health sector is gaining increasing recognition, especially in low income countries. Arguably,… Read more »
Ecotourism: A Potential Reservoir for Transfer of Antimicrobial Resistant Pathogens between Humans and Non-Human Primates
What are the risks ecotourism poses for the transfer of antimicrobial resistant microorganisms between human and non-human primates? A new article in Gut… Read more »
International Women’s Day 2020: Celebrating Southeast Asian women in research
This is the first of a weekly blog in March 2020 that coincides with International Women’s Day. Each blog will feature 2-3 amazing women in research.
Antimicrobial use and resistance in animals and environment in Africa
Despite the potential spread of antimicrobial resistant organisms, there has been little focus on antimicrobial resistance surveillance programme specific for… Read more »
Hybrid speciation in the Culex pipiens mosquito complex?
Mosquitoes are infamous for the challenges they present biologists attempting to classify distinct taxonomic groups. In a recent article, researchers try to… Read more »
Why do some people eat their placenta?
Human placentophagy, the practice of eating one’s own placenta, has gained popularity in recent year, despite a lack of reliable evidence of the expected… Read more »
MICHELINdb – a new online platform for mining available data on worm-microbiome crosstalk
Today, Riccardo Scotti and Cinzia Cantacessi discuss the 'MICrobiome HELminth INteractions database' (MICHELINdb), an online resource created to facilitate the… Read more »
