Advances and future directions in betalain metabolic engineering

Recent Advances and Future Directions for Quality Engineering

Molecular epidemiology: recent advances and future directions.

In 1982 we proposed the concept and a framework for implementing molecular cancer epidemiology. Here, we review progress during the past 17 years in validating and applying this approach to cancer prevention. There have been major advances, notably in the understanding of environment-susceptibility interactions in human cancer. However, a review of major findings to date reveals several urgent ...

Autonomous robots: Potential, advances and future directions

Recent advances in machine learning, such as deep neural networks, have caused a huge boost in many different areas of artificial intelligence and robotics. These methods typically require a large corpus of well-prepared and labeled training data, which limits the applicability to robotics. In our opinion, a fundamental challenge in autonomous robotics is to design systems that are simple enoug...

Anthrax prophylaxis: recent advances and future directions

Anthrax is a serious, potentially fatal disease that can present in four distinct clinical patterns depending on the route of infection (cutaneous, gastrointestinal, pneumonic, or injectional); effective strategies for prophylaxis and therapy are therefore required. This review addresses the complex mechanisms of pathogenesis employed by the bacterium and describes how, as understanding of thes...

Dietary biomarkers: advances, limitations and future directions

The subjective nature of self-reported dietary intake assessment methods presents numerous challenges to obtaining accurate dietary intake and nutritional status. This limitation can be overcome by the use of dietary biomarkers, which are able to objectively assess dietary consumption (or exposure) without the bias of self-reported dietary intake errors. The need for dietary biomarkers was addr...