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‘Concept Articles’ provide short, comprehensive overviews of hot topics for scientists beyond the specific area of research. The short reviews summarize a clearly delineated problem in physiology and contain...

In recent years, artificial intelligence has revolutionized many aspects of our life. We find it in our smartphones, in cars, in cameras, and in smart home applications for example. In this special issue we ...

Ever more people are affected by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like type II diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases. The fundamental cause for most of these disorders is dysregulated metabolism. In ...

The cellular response to life-threatening lack of oxygen, hypoxia, has stimulated physiologist to study oxygen sensing in cells and tissue. The discovery of the transcription factor hypoxia inducible factor ...

Cellular functions are usually linked to the activity of proteins and nucleic acids. Accordingly, human diseases are classified as malfunctions of these classes of macromolecules. Indeed, most of the approve...