Life Sciences - Josha Journal

8. February 2020 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.7.1.629

A Two-Path Process Model of Invention: Conclusions from six years of Research with independent Inventors

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Harald A. Mieg

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

This paper introduces a two-path model of the invention that comprises two processes: a long-term, idea-driven path, and a short-term, problem-solving path. The model focuses on individual inventors and includes…

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Reproducibility Crisis in the Sciences: The “Agitation”

Life Sciences

30. September 2019 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.9.603

Reproducibility Crisis in the Sciences: The “Agitation”

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Julieta Alcain

EGLC Journal

The following article, previously published in the magazine El Gato y La Caja, presents and retracts a problem in the world of today's scientific laboratories. What about experiments? Why don't…

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Harnessing knowledge AND clinical experience to improve patient care employing an electronic system analyzing non-structured medical records: The “SimRec” Software

Life Sciences

25. September 2019 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.9.602

Harnessing knowledge AND clinical experience to improve patient care employing an electronic system analyzing non-structured medical records: The “SimRec” Software

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Nicolas Woitzik, Roland Mertelsmann, Reinhard Marks

Medizinische Fakultät, Albert - Ludwigs Universität Freiburg im Breisgau

The era of digitization reached the medical field. Technological advances and growing access to computer systems drive many health care innovations. In 2009, the United States authorized the Health Information…

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Erleben wir eine Renaissance des Lamarckismus? – Are we experiencing a renaissance of Lamarckism?

Life Sciences

31. August 2019 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.8.596

Erleben wir eine Renaissance des Lamarckismus? – Are we experiencing a renaissance of Lamarckism?

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Horst Kress

In the preceding second essay on the Renaissance of Lamarckism (JOSHA Journal Vol. 4, Issue 6) we were able to follow how the Sutton-Boveri chromium moment theory of inheritance achieved…

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DEMETRIOS PRIZE 2019! Optimizing T-Cell Culture in Microfluidic Devices

Demetrios Project

17. July 2019 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.7.587

DEMETRIOS PRIZE 2019! Optimizing T-Cell Culture in Microfluidic Devices

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Julia Pinter

Hochschule Furtwagen University (HFU)

One of the winners, german Julia Pinter, focused his research on the subject of Cancer. Cancer is the disease with the highest mortality worldwide, treated with the same standard approaches…

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Demetrios Prize 2019: Machine Learning as an Adjunct to Medical Decision Making

Demetrios Project

16. July 2019 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.7.586

Demetrios Prize 2019: Machine Learning as an Adjunct to Medical Decision Making

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Nicolas Woitzik

Medizinische Fakultät, Albert - Ludwigs Universität Freiburg im Breisgau

One of the winners, Nicolas Woitzik from Germany, evaluated in his thesis the textual clinical recommender system which represents a computerized clinical decision support system (CDSS). It analyses the patient’s…

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The Principles of Cancer: A Metaphor of Life?

Life Sciences

24. June 2019 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.6.572

The Principles of Cancer: A Metaphor of Life?

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Roland Mertelsmann, Alexandros Spyridonidis

Albert-Ludwigs Universität

While cancer is a complex disease with a multitude of clinical presentations, a few principles can be discerned. Cancer is old; it existed already in the earliest multicellular organisms. Cancer…

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When science meets music : Ptérodactyle and Marie Brendle

Life Sciences

25. May 2019 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.5.566

When science meets music : Ptérodactyle and Marie Brendle

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Marie Brendle

This article is a presentation of the quintet « Ptérodactyle », founded by Dr. med. Marie Brendle, a young medical doctor who started a carrier in music. Born in the…

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Recent developments and future directions in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy.

Life Sciences

21. May 2019 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.5.565

Recent developments and future directions in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy.

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Tobias Wertheimer

University Hospital Regensburg

From March 23 to 27 2019 the 45th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2019 was held in Frankfurt, Germany. Along with the common topics…

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Nobel Laureate Joachim Frank receives an Honorary PhD Degree of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Mendoza, Argentina: A Journey from Freiburg to Argentina

Life Sciences

20. April 2019 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.4.556

Nobel Laureate Joachim Frank receives an Honorary PhD Degree of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Mendoza, Argentina: A Journey from Freiburg to Argentina

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Joachim Frank

Columbia University

Joachim Frank has discovered and developed single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 which he shared with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson. Using this…

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