by Lucas Unger This study explores the development of a potential universal antivenom by combining monoclonal antibodies with a small-molecule inhibitor. By isolating antibodies from a hyperimmune human donor with extensive venom exposure (Tim Friede, who injected himself over 800…
Shayla Sharmine and I had the opportunity to write an editorial about recent work published in Acta Physiologica on the role of Decorin on pancreatic islets. Shayla did a really great job on generating a nice figure summarising the published…
by Fatemeh Rahmatabadi This article by Sosa et al. explores the biology of disseminated tumor cells (DTCs), which are central to cancer relapses and metastasis. DTCs can spread early during tumor development—even from non-invasive lesions—and persist in distant organs such…
by Shayla Sharmine The endocrine pancreas produces hormones that regulate glucose homeostasis in the body. Among three major regulatory hormone-producing cell types, delta cell is known to regulate the secretion of somatostatin that counter-regulates insulin and glucagon production through intra-islet…
by Thomas Aga Legøy Today, Nature published a new feature examining the most cited papers of the twenty-first century (Pearson et al., 2025). The most cited paper is naturally connected to the neural-inspired algorithms that laid the foundation for deep…
by Kaykobad Hossain Bladder cancer (BC) is the tenth most common cancer type worldwide. Muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is the more aggressive type that is defined by invasion of the detrusor layer of the bladder and concurrent metastasis to adjacent…
WNT-4 real? A proposed paracrine player in β-cell function and glycemic control by Ulrik Larsen Diabetes is a multifactorial disorder commonly characterized by the loss or dysfunction of pancreatic β-cell, which play a central role in insulin secretion. β-cells have…