Kota Miura Nataša Sladoje Editors 2020 The often-posed question among life science researchers, “Which software tool is the best for bioimage analysis,” indicates misunderstanding which calls for explanations. It appears that this question cannot be answered easily, maybe even not at all. Biological research problems are not general, and each of them questions specific events […]

Francisco M. Couto 2019 During the last decades, I witnessed the growing importance of computer science skills for career advancement in Health and Life Sciences. However, not everyone has the skill, inclination, or time to learn computer programming. The learning process is usually time consuming and requires constant practice, since software frameworks and programming languages […]

Gerd Pluschke • Katharina Röltgen Editors 2019 Mycobacterium Ulcerans Disease Within the 20 years after WHO has launched the Global Buruli Ulcer Initiative in 1998, considerable progress has been made toward the understanding and the control of this neglected, once mysterious, tropical skin disease. Major practical achievements were the evaluation and successful introduction of an antibiotic […]

Bruce Spiegelman Editor 2017 We gathered in Paris to present new work on exercise and the molecular understanding of its actions and benefits. Exercise has been understood for centuries to provide benefits to the human body. Diet and exercise have long been prescribed as the first lines of therapy for metabolic diseases such as obesity and […]