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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Do additives really affect all children’s behaviour?
The debate concerning the effect of additives in children’s diets has raged for many years, and has been a media[…]
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A day in the life: Genetics
Dave Gear, BSc Genetics. 2014 Graduate. What extracurricular activities did you do outside of your degree? I played Rugby whilst[…]
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A Day in the Life: Biomedical PHD
As a second year PhD student I am now fully submerged in my project. I have got to grips with[…]
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A Day in the Life: Medical Sciences
Interview: Alumni: Oli Purnell, BSc (Hons) Medical Sciences (graduated in 2014). What extracurricular activities did you do outside of your[…]
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A Day in the Life: Programming
Name: Daniel Taylor, BSc, MSc (BSc (Hons) in prog) What extracurricular activities did you do outside of your degree(s)? During[…]
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