The tenth edition is now available! From now on you can read this anniversary edition online, download the PDF or get it in real life at the medical faculty building (in the bookshelf near the stairs at the entrance or at the study square). In this edition you can read about organ-on-a-chip as a possible alternative to animal testing and about the effect of mobile phone radiation on the incidence of malignant tumours in animals. Moreover, the founders of RAMS share their experience in creating … [Lees meer...]
Archief voor februari 2018
How is RAMS produced?
Always wanted to know how RAMS is produced? Curious to know the process behind a scientific medical journal? Keep reading! Our goal is to enthuse (bio)medical students of the Radboud University Nijmegen to participate in research during their studies and to give them an opportunity to publish an article. This is both a learning experience for the authors, as well as for the editors and reviewers, who are all (bio)medical students. We have got three editors-in-chief: the chair of the editorial … [Lees meer...]
What to do when antibiotics are failing?
By Guus Veldkamp About 100 years ago, the world was a very different place. The average life expectancy in the industrialized world was 46 for men and 48 for women. In the Netherlands the average is now 82 years, according to the CBS. This difference is huge. Two big contributors to this change are suggested to be improved sanitation and the rise of pharmaceutical antibiotics[1-3]. The latter must have saved millions of lives; infectious diseases that were once feared, have now become easily … [Lees meer...]
