Biomedicine

Sort by:

View all topics of Biomedicine Hide topics of Biomedicine

27 March 2017

We Can Have a Positive Impact on Aging

Ageing is an inevitable and integral part of everyone’s lifecycle, together with birth, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. However, it does not always begin at the same time for everyone. [...]

Tackling Climate Change Through Human Engineering

Science,Biomedicine,Environment,Climate Change

Human-induced climate change is one of the biggest problems that we face today. Unfortunately, existing solutions such as behavioral and market solutions appear to be insufficient to mitigate [...]

Undoing Aging with Molecular and Cellular Damage Repair

Science,Biomedicine

Since the dawn of medicine, aging has been doctors’ foremost challenge. Three unsuccessful approaches to conquering it have failed: treating components of age-related ill health as curable [...]

24 June 2016

Monster’s Fair: The Rarest Gems of the Animal World

Today, there is no doubt that great efforts are being made in terms of the conservation of endangered species. But this has not been conducted equally: in recent years, several experts [...]

12 April 2016

Assisted Reproduction and the 4.0 Industry

Despite the incredible breakthroughs in assisted reproduction and in the genetic technology applied to it, the embryologist profession is still very artisanal. However, the fourth industrial [...]

08 February 2016

CRISPR-CAS: more than just “scissors”

The Princess of Asturias Award from the past year has been awarded to two researchers, E. Charpentier and J. Doudna, for their work around the biotechnology technique called CRISPR-CAS, [...]

29 January 2016

Tissues from the Lab

Making human organs and tissues in the laboratory that work identically to the originals is not some fantasy from the creator of Frankenstein. In fact, an artificial contractile muscle [...]

BBVA-OpenMind-Nayef-Al-Rodhan-socioneurobiologia-futuro

Socio-Neuro-Biology and Prospects for Our Collective Global Future

Although in recent years the study of human social behaviour has gained momentum, its biological and evolutionary aspects remain underexplored. While specific notions such as group selection [...]

Openmind-Arantxa-Serantes-la-metafora-en-la-filosofia-Ernesto-Grassi

09 June 2015

Living with Alzheimer: an infographic

This enlightening document was sent by Helen from Homecare Plus, a homecare company based in Dublin, Ireland. Related articles “If You’re Going to Live 80 Years, You May Have a 30% [...]

genomic bubble-patient's needs-openmind-carlos-bezos

17 March 2014

The Genomic Bubble and Strategies Focusing on Patient’s Needs

In spite of the massive investment in genomics, the results are not only medically and financially scarce, but are also dismissed by society. Far from encouraging their uptake, the scientific [...]

See more results