Global DNA sequencing capacity has more than doubled every six months in the last decade. This genetic information is powering revolutions across many fields. Disease outbreaks can be tracked and responded to in near real-time; for example, global monitoring of SARS-COV2 variants is essential to …
Neuroscience
Rising living standards and advances of modern medicine have extended and improved the quality of life, but also forever changed society. The stress of modern life triggers various mental disorders, and our prolonged life expectancy makes aging-related cognitive decline and neurodegeneration more …
Mental Health
Mental health and psychosocial wellbeing are critical foundations for overall health. The United Nations included mental health as integral to the global 2015 Sustainable Development Goals, but achieving these goals in the next generation remains a challenge given that the World Health Organization …
Stigma
Stigma, comprising negative attitudes or beliefs ascribed to certain attributes and characteristics, is also closely associated with discrimination in ways that commonly undermine health in stigmatized people. Stigma and discrimination have impacts across the health care continuum, impeding access …
Epigenetics
Epigenetics is a fast-growing field in biology that originally aimed to understand the phenotypic expression of the genotype. Today, epigenetics covers from the study of mechanisms of gene expression regulation during the development of complex organisms, to the study of phenotypic alterations …
Toxicology
Human activities over the past several centuries have not only profoundly modified the physical environment that we live in, but also the chemical environment, such that many chemical toxins are now ubiquitous throughout the Earth’s biosphere. Toxicology is the study of how exposure to …