Drones: Agriculture's New Best Friend!

Smartphone Apps: A Patient's New Best Friend?

The end of the 20th century saw the introduction of the internet. Approximately twodecades later, the internet has been strongly adopted by every segment of public society. In 2013, 74.4% of all United States households reported internet use,with 73.4% reporting adedicated high–speed internet connection (1). Specifically, the general public has gravitated toward the internet through their smart...

Strange Bedfellows Could HR be marketing ’ s new best friend ?

Petri Nets Are a Biologist's Best Friend

Understanding how genes regulate each other and how gene expression is controlled in living cells is crucial to cure genetic diseases such as cancer and represents a fundamental step towards personalised medicine. The complexity and the high concurrency of gene regulatory networks require the use of formal techniques to analyse the dynamical properties that control cell proliferation and differ...

ICT: Health's Best Friend and Worst Enemy?

I propose a paradigm shift for health care, as there is an urgent need for i) continuous (semi-)automatic medical checkups, ii) cost reduction, and iii) cure for the 21st century black plague (i.e., stress-related diseases) are very much needed. To realize this ICT’s Paradox has to be solved. On the one hand, ICT can cause i) musculoskeletal problems, ii) vision problems, iii) headache, iv) obe...

The brain’s best friend: microglial neurotoxicity revisited

One long standing aspect of microglia biology was never questioned; their involvement in brain disease. Based on morphological changes (retracted processes and amoeboid shape) that inevitably occur in these cells in case of damage in the central nervous system, microglia in the diseased brain were called "activated." Because "activated" microglia were always found in direct neighborhood to dead...