Scientists in the Netherlands say they have identified a potential new organ in the human throat. Researchers say the newly-found set of...

What is coronavirus? Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause illness in humans and animals. Seven different types have been...

Coronaviruses infect the lungs and airways. Most people with COVID-19 have mild disease and never require hospitalisation. For people who...

Salt, or Sodium Chloride (NaCl), is a mineral compound that is part of a wider class of compounds called the “Salts”. In the natural...

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere in the media it seems these days, it is making our lives easier from “Alexa” to “Google” we are...

One major factor of Alzheimer’s disease is the huge tangles of a protein known as tau protein in the brain. A new study that has just...

Machine learning is posited as a transformative force for human health. But what exactly is “Machine Learning” and how can it help human...

Three scientists have been awarded the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering how the body responds to changes in oxygen...

Perhaps one of the best kept secrets in popular science is that cells identify and interact with one another through a sugar code. This...

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disease that causes hallucinations, memory and cognition issues. It affects approximately 0.5% of the...

Drug discovery has taken many leaps forward in the last century, from the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928, to the...

The brain is a complex and delightfully fascinating organ, it weighs around 1.2 kg and is jam packed with upwards of one hundred billion...

Nothing is quite like seeing an Orangutan in the wild. The glimpse of their orange fur as they swing from one branch to another fills you...

What is Dementia? Dementia is a clinical term that is used to describe an array of symptoms: Memory loss Personality Changes Language...

What is the importance of breast milk? At birth 81% of UK mothers exclusively breast feed their offspring. This decreases to 17% at the 3...

New research has just been published that may offer new hope to stroke patients. Before we outline the research and what it means we...

Overview Human lifespan is increasing day by day, the average life expectancy in the UK at the last check was 80.8 years old. With women...

Introduction Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that is thought to affect close to 1% of the worlds population1. It is thought to occur...

Recent Advances in Cryo-Electron Microscopy Protein structures are important in understanding the molecular basis for their mechanisms of...

Neurogenesis Neurogenesis is the process in which new neurons are created in the brain and wider central nervous system (CNS) from neural...