Educational video's
At the interface of art and science - athletic dancing bodies represent the equally flexible antibodies present in our body! Inspired by the research of the Hecklab of Utrecht University, the researchers worked together with video performers from Sensu and the dancers of the Aerialettes, to artistically imagine how we can best detect the best antibodies in our own bodies. to prevent diseases.
This video was made possible with financial support from the Utrecht Molecular Immunology Hub, the Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Hecklab of Utrecht University as well as from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme for the proteomics infrastructure EPIX-XS (823839)
100 Years Medicines
The English physician James LeFanu came up with the following list of medicial breakthroughs that changed society in his book "The rise and fall of modern medicine".
In nine of these 10 breakthroughs, medicines were essential.. And even open-heart surgery is not possible without anesthesia drugs. So, without exaggeration it can be stated that medicines have changed society dramatically. But science has changed as well, according to this summary of Nobel prizes for drug research:
More information on these Nobel prizes can be found here.
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This article briefly described the history of pharmacology in the Netherlands.
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