In 2014, newspapers and other media sources were filled with claims that eating seven portions of fruit and vegetables a[…]
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Month: February 2015
Green light to AstraZeneca’s new home
Cambridge City Council has eventually conceded construction permission to AstraZeneca for its future Global Research and Development (R&D) Centre and[…]
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Casper Zebrafish as a Model Organism for Cancer Research
Cancer remains a disease area that attracts a substantial amount of research and funding each year. Over the next two[…]
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Novel Compound could be developed into Anti-HIV vaccine
The development of a novel compound that modulates HIV interaction with cells has led to an advance in the fight[…]
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The Public Perception of Animal Research
Approximately half of the diseases in the world have no treatment. By understanding the human body and disease development through[…]
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The Public Perception of Science
Many factors contribute towards the public’s perception of science: values, beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, and the media, and is, undoubtedly, a[…]
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Personalised therapeutics: the future of medicine?
The human genome is over 3 billion base pairs long. A mutation at any one of these bases could have[…]
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Climate Change Ate My Homework
Climatology and evolutionary biology are perhaps the most misunderstood of all modern scientific fields. Both seem to consistently appear in[…]
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The Obesity Epidemic: is Medical Advice the Cause? Part 2
Recent scientific studies have identified a potential hormonal culprit of obesity. The hormone insulin regulates fat metabolism, and in fact,[…]
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The Obesity Epidemic: is Medical Advice the Cause? Part 1
Over the last half-century, human body weight and body mass index (BMI) have dramatically increased in the Western world. But[…]
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