ReviewJournal of internal medicine2020
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Review in Journal of internal medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
- Comparative physiology and biomimetics in metabolic and environmental health: what can we learn from extreme animal phenotypes?Diabetologia · 2026Review
- Tinkering with Blood: Optimizing the Coagulation System for Therapeutic Purposes.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Genome report: first whole genome assembly of Python regius (ball python), a model of extreme physiological and metabolic plasticity.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
- Evolutionary Dynamics of Oncosuppression Under Selection Pressure.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Guardians of the sea: molecular and biochemical adaptations in sharks and whales for atherosclerosis resistance and their potential in human cardioprotection.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2025Review
- Harnessing Evolution and Biomimetics to Enhance Planetary Health: Kidney Insights.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2025Review
- Fieldwork on animals living in extreme conditions as a source of biomedical innovation.Science in One Health · 2025Review
- Molecular regulation of reversible cardiac remodeling: lessons from species with extreme physiological adaptations.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Review
- The fructose survival hypothesis for obesity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Formerly bile-farmed bears as a model of accelerated ageing.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The future of evolutionary medicine: sparking innovation in biomedicine and public health.Frontiers in science · 2023Article
- Sequencing and assembling bear genomes: the bare necessities.Frontiers in zoology · 2022Review
- Female Health Across the Tree of Life: Insights at the Intersection of Women's Health, One Health and Planetary Health.PNAS nexus · 2022Article
- The Influence of the Shoe over the Medial Foot Arch and the Lower Limbs Kinematics in Toddlers.Revista brasileira de ortopedia · 2022Article
- Manipulating the exposome to enable better ageing.The Biochemical journal · 2021Article
- SARS-COV-2 and biomimetics: What saves the planet will save our health.Journal of internal medicine · 2021Article
- The Idiosyncratic Physiological Traits of the Naked Mole-Rat; a Resilient Animal Model of Aging, Longevity, and Healthspan.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021Review
- Biomimetics provides lessons from nature for contemporary ways to improve human health.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2021Review
- Did giraffe cardiovascular evolution solve the problem of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2021Article
- Insights in the regulation of trimetylamine N-oxide production using a comparative biomimetic approach suggest a metabolic switch in hibernating bears.Scientific reports · 2020Observational
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Abstract
There are over 8 million species in this world that live in widely varying environments, from hot thermal fissures to cold arctic settings. These species have evolved over millions of years and vary markedly in how they have adapted to their environments. In the last decades, studies of how species have succeeded in surviving in different environments and with different resources have been recognized to provide not only insights into disease but also novel means for developing treatments. Here, we provide an overview of two related and overlapping approaches (biomimetics and zoobiquity), which are turning to the natural world for insights to better understand, treat and prevent human 'burden of lifestyle' pathologies from heart disease and cancer to degeneration and premature ageing. We suggest that expanding biomedical investigation beyond its decades old conventional practices to new approaches based on a broad awareness of the diversity of animal life and comparative physiology can accelerate innovations in health care under the motto 'Nature knows best'.
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