World Alzheimer’s Day: Every 3 seconds someone in the world develops dementia
Today on World Alzheimer's Awareness Day the CEO of Alzheimer’s Disease International, Paola Barbarino, sheds light on the current issue we are… Read more »
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Exposure to nanoparticles can activate herpesvirus viruses in the lungs – Winner of the Particle and Fibre Toxicology Best Paper Award 2018
Particle and Fibre Toxicology presents the 'Best Paper of the Year' award each year based on citations, downloads and impact. In this Q&A… Read more »
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Understanding complexities for household energy management: lessons from a smart grid pilot project
Smart grid tools increase opportunities to reduce or shift residential electricity consumption, but can they shape residential… Read more »
Switching on the production of malaria sexual stages
A new study sheds further light on the transcription factor that acts as a master switch that turns on the production of sexual… Read more »
Contributing to open science – a computational biologist’s perspective
The landscape of how we communicate science is changing rapidly. Microbiome prizewinner, Dr Jacqueline Meisel attended the week… Read more »
Mind altering microbes: can Toxoplasma gondii infection increase entrepreneurship?
Toxoplasma gondii infection is thought to alter the personalities of infected individuals (whether rats or humans) by increasing… Read more »
Highlights of the BMC series: August 2018
• Preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhea using probiotics • Men’s suicidality in Norway • Life history traits in a… Read more »
Wolbachia is ready for prime time!
Here, Krisztian Magori summarizes the most recent updates from the World Mosquito Program on the success of scaled deployment of… Read more »
Kermit’s sticky little fingers: What do we know (and what not) about tree frog attachment?
Tree frogs have an incredible ability to attach to a range of surfaces from smooth glass to rough wood in both wet and dry… Read more »
Using a biological framework to resolve the early stages of linguistic divergence
The diversity observed between different present day languages have interested academics for centuries. It has been proposed that… Read more »