Virtual reality for biochemistry education: the cellular factory.

Virtual Reality (VR) involves the coupling of visual communication hardware and software. The technology is capable of offering transformative educational practice and is increasingly being adopted within the biochemistry domain to better understand complex biochemical processes. This article documents a pilot study for the efficacy of VR in biochemistry education at undergraduate university level, focusing on the citric acid cycle: a central process for extracting energy in most cellular life forms.

Skin cancer in essential thrombocythaemia and polycythaemia vera patients treated with hydroxycarbamide.

Hydroxycarbamide (HC) is used as a cytoreductive treatment in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). Observational studies have raised the possibility that HC contributes to the development of secondary malignancies, including skin tumours in MPN patients. In this retrospective observational study, we report a single-centre experience of 324 HC-treated MPN patients with long-term follow-up, compared to 47 MPN patients not on HC.