Robin Levy: Confronting Our Bodies

Improving Our Bodies, Our Meals, and Our Gadgets

Do we own our bodies?

How Bacteria in Our Bodies Protect Our Health

Biologists once thought that human beings were physiological islands, entirely capable of regulating their own internal workings. Our bodies made all the enzymes needed for breaking down food and using its nutrients to power and repair our tissues and organs. Signals from our own tissues dictated body states such as hunger or satiety. The specialized cells of our immune system taught themselves...

Your body, my body, our coupling moves our bodies

Guillaume Dumas*, Julien Laroche and Alexandre Lehmann 1 Institut Pasteur, Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions Unit, Paris, France 2 CNRS UMR3571 Genes, Synapses and Cognition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 3 Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions, University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France 4 Akoustic Arts, Paris, France 5 Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surger...

Confronting challenges in post graduate admissions in our profession

Dear Friends, M of us have taken up academics as our profession and are keenly observing the developments in our field from close quarters over several years. Some of us are holding key administrative positions in the hierarchy of the Dental colleges while the others are involved in the departmental working and developments. Each one of us will agree that indeed the Dental profession as a whole...