Category: Mathematical Models

Reviewing Diabetes: 0. A Basis for Understanding

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Having recently completed a comprehensive review of diabetes, I have been both fascinated, by our current understanding of the complex biology underlying this disease, and horrified, by the extent to which this disease affects our society and its increase in prevalence. I intend, therefore, to share some of my findings, available in the biological literature, […]

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Plastic Drug Resistance in Melanoma

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Many people have heard of the modern wave of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections but a more pernicious form of drug resistance also manifests throughout the treatment of cancer. Therapies for cancer can largely be split into 2 separate categories; general cytotoxic and targeted treatments. Cytotoxic treatments are spatially targeted to the site of the cancer […]

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