By Bas ten Elzen According to most medical students, studying medicine is too exhausting and time-consuming when combined with doing clinical research. Although it is true that it takes time to carry out a qualitatively sound and relevant study, it certainly seems more achievable with the recommendations that Jan Vandenbroucke offers in the NTVG’’s article ‘conducting your own research: a revised recipe for a clinical research training project’. In this article, he states that the … [Lees meer...]
Obnoxious farm-smell protects from allergic asthma
By Bas ten Elzen Have you grown up on a farm, being disgusted by the view and smell of the stool and excreta of the animals every morning? Then you might actually be lucky! Researchers from Ghent University hypothesize that this rural environment correlates with high exposition to LPS, which is an element of the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria. Growing up on a farm consequently gives rise to the induction of the so-called ubiquitin-modifying enzyme A20, which is strongly linked to LPS. … [Lees meer...]