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Since I was in high school I have always found these topics very interesting. But I was also very interested in pathogenesis and wanted to know how biology works.

Through my engineering work, I was particularly interested in signal processing, and signals in computers are really just ones and zeros that you can manipulate mathematically.

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disorder affecting approximately 60 million people worldwide. The condition presents with rapid hyperproliferation and dysregulated differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes, manifesting clinically as salmon pink plaques with overlying silvery-white scale.

Sodium valproate, or valproic acid (VPA), is an antiepileptic drug used for the treatment of epilepsy, bipolar disorder, migraine headache, and diabetic-neuropathy related pain. Valproate-induced pancreatitis is an idiosyncratic reaction of the drug, commonly seen in paediatrics…

Drug resistance among patients with tuberculosis (TB) is an emergent topic that requires intervention. According to a survey of TB drug resistance in India, resistance to any fluoroquinolones (FQ) reported in cases of multidrug resistance (MDR) to TB was 21.82%.

Hannah Gower | Cardiology and Internal Medicine Speciality Registrar, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

Histotripsy is a non-invasive, non-thermal, and non-ionising focused ultrasound (US) treatment method that destroys tissue through mechanical disruption caused by cavitation. Short-duration (<20 μs) high-pressure US pulses cause the rapid expansion and collapse of endogenous gas bubbles in targeted tissue.

Juan Gómez Rivas | Urology Consultant, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain; Assistant Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain