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What can science tell us about mortality and survival in Game of Thrones?

Does it all come down to a roll of the dice, or are there important underlying factors that determine who wins and who dies when they play the game of thrones? Game of Thrones is a popular HBO television series that has captured the imagination of... click to read more

  • Reidar P. Lystad | Research Fellow at Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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  • Benjamin T. Brown | Sessional Academic at Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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mortality
survival analysis
violence
prevention
Views 1057
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jul 1, 2019
Recording cellular memories

Imagine trying to understand an unpredictable movie - such as the iconic Psycho - based only on a sequence of still images, or worse yet, a single image. Biologists currently face a very similar conundrum - we attempt to decipher dynamic processes occurring within cells... click to read more

  • Tanmay Tanna | Research assistant at Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Views 1920
Reading time 3.5 min
published on May 20, 2019
Growing human retinal organoids to understand development of the human eye

Our laboratory is interested in how the cells that "see" color are made. There are three types of color-detecting cells that sense red, green, or blue light. We cannot study how these cells are made in developing human babies, so we take human stem cells... click to read more

  • Robert Johnston | Professor at Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA
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retina
organoid
cone cell
macular degeneration
Views 1812
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Apr 26, 2019
A novel mechanism of metabolic regulation of blood pressure

Hypertension or high blood pressure is the major risk factor of heart and kidney diseases affecting the human population. Indeed the incidence rate is very high: 1 in every 3 adult individuals. Hypertension is normally treated in the clinic as an independent disease. Nonetheless, it... click to read more

  • Saroj Chakraborty | PhD student at Center for Hypertension and Precision Medicine, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Ohio, USA
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  • Bina Joe | Professor at Center for Hypertension and Precision Medicine, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Ohio, USA
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blood pressure
ketone bodies
high salt
kidney diseases
Views 1836
Reading time 3 min
published on Apr 23, 2019
Gene therapy and ALS: one step closer to the clinic

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating disease that on average kills in only 3 to 5 years after diagnosis, and for which there is still no cure today. ALS patients have progressive muscle weakness, leading to gradual paralysis and difficulties breathing which will usually... click to read more

  • Florie Borel | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Horae Gene Therapy Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
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  • Christian Mueller | Associate Professor at Horae Gene Therapy Center; Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
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gene therapy
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
motor neuron disease
Views 1959
Reading time 4 min
published on Mar 6, 2019