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[ARTICLE] Long chain unsaturated fat is cytotoxic for cancer cells

Killing tumour cells by fatty indigestion: here is the strategy to fight cancer, explored by Belgian scientists from Louvain University. Their work, recently published in Cell Metabolism(1), provided many convincing arguments from in vitro and animal experiments. Not...

[WEBPAPER] Patient Reported Outcomes: how to develop it and why use it in clinical studies?

« On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you feel today? » This is one of the questions that many patients may be confronted with in a clinical trial. Indeed, the state of a patient's health can be assessed by taking into account the opinion of patients on various themes. When...

[ARTICLE] – Trial registration: different tools, same ethical principle.

As described by the World Health Organization (WHO), “the registration of all interventional trials is considered to be a scientific, ethical and moral responsibility”.(1)   The principle of trial registration is to declare the synopsis of the trial before the...

[ARTICLE] Measurement of body composition: concept and tools

As developed in our previous article on  , the type of data obtained are useful for diagnosis, managing and understanding different physiological conditions such as weight loss, sarcopenia or others disease risk factors. Concept Analysis of body composition is based...
[INFOGRAPHIC] What is DXA ?

[INFOGRAPHIC] What is DXA ?

Do you want to discover more about body composition, read our article about concepts and tools of body composition.References : https://www.biofortis.fr/2021/10/27/body-composition-concepts-tools/ For more information, don't hesitate to contact us :