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Issue 4: Vascular Specialisation and Barrier Function

Issue 4: Vascular Specialisation and Barrier Function

This educational piece is designed for medical students and others interested in human physiology. Here I introduce key concepts in the regulation and maintenance of the body’s fluid compartments

Issue 3 — On the Blood Brain Barrier

A horizontal review

Issue 2 - INTRODUCTION TO CANCER BIOLOGY: THE SOMATIC MUTATION THEORY

Issue 2 - INTRODUCTION TO CANCER BIOLOGY: THE SOMATIC MUTATION THEORY

What is cancer? That's a hard question, but I'd answer like this: Cancer is a Darwinian, somatic evolutionary process driven by the sequential accumulation of genetic and structural alterations in individual cells. This offers some introduction to the theoretical frameworks of this definition

Introduction to Neuroscience — Issue 1

Hello all, welcome to this new weekly newsletter where I will endeavour to describe and make more accessible neuroscientific and oncological knowledge and findings.

Towards a Glass Menagerie: Mourning in Joan Didion and Walter Benjamin

Towards a Glass Menagerie: Mourning in Joan Didion and Walter Benjamin

The journalism of Joan Didion has an askant attitude towards the world. It is as if it has, the result of some sort of carelessness, accidentally fallen out of time and lies there as refuse on the floor waiting for it to be all over.