Hugo Creeth3 min The Salty Shake UpSalt, or Sodium Chloride (NaCl), is a mineral compound that is part of a wider class of compounds called the “Salts”. In the natural world salt is a crystall...
Hugo Creeth2 minBr-"AI"-n ScansArtificial Intelligence is everywhere in the media it seems these days, it is making our lives easier from “Alexa” to “Google” we are very much surrounded by...
Hugo Creeth3 minUntangling Alzheimer’s 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 been published in the J...
Hugo Creeth4 minMachine Learning ManiaMachine learning is posited as a transformative force for human health. But what exactly is “Machine Learning” and how can it help human health and medicine?...
Hugo Creeth2 minNobel Prize News: Physiology or MedicineThree scientists have been awarded the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering how the body responds to changes in oxygen levels, specifically...
Hugo Creeth5 minThe Sugar CodePerhaps one of the best kept secrets in popular science is that cells identify and interact with one another through a sugar code. This enigmatic code if cra...
Hugo Creeth2 minHippocampal Shrinkage in Schizophrenic AdolescentsSchizophrenia is a psychiatric disease that causes hallucinations, memory and cognition issues. It affects approximately 0.5% of the general population, rece...
Hugo Creeth2 minA Promising 'New' Drug for Prostate CancerDrug discovery has taken many leaps forward in the last century, from the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928, to the modern day epigenetic ...
Hugo Creeth4 minBrain - BasicsThe brain is a complex and delightfully fascinating organ, it weighs around 1.2 kg and is jam packed with upwards of one hundred billion nerve cells and over...
Hugo Creeth3 minFrom Orange to Red - Orangutan's on the brinkNothing 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 with the a sense of...
Hugo Creeth2 minAlcohol and DementiaWhat is Dementia? Dementia is a clinical term that is used to describe an array of symptoms: Memory loss Personality Changes Language problems It is a devast...
Hugo Creeth4 minBreast Milk & CognitionWhat is the importance of breast milk? At birth 81% of UK mothers exclusively breast feed their offspring. This decreases to 17% at the 3 month stage postpar...
Hugo Creeth3 minA Stroke of SenseNew research has just been published that may offer new hope to stroke patients. Before we outline the research and what it means we first need a basic under...
Hugo Creeth4 minLife's ElixirOverview 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 living to 82.8 years...
Hugo Creeth10 minImaging SchizophreniaIntroduction Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that is thought to affect close to 1% of the worlds population1. It is thought to occur more commonly in men ...
Hugo Creeth4 minCryo-EM and the Structure of TRPV1Recent Advances in Cryo-Electron Microscopy Protein structures are important in understanding the molecular basis for their mechanisms of action, without str...
Hugo Creeth5 minBrdU: Marking Neurogenesis Neurogenesis Neurogenesis is the process in which new neurons are created in the brain and wider central nervous system (CNS) from neural stem cells and prog...
Hugo Creeth3 minMalaria: Is it Spreading?Malaria Overview Malaria is a dangerous and killer parasitic disease that is carried by infected mosquitoes and transmitted to/between people. Its prevalence...
Hugo Creeth9 minThe Epigenetic EpiphanyThe Genetic Discovery: DNA Many believe that Watson and Crick were the scientists who discovered DNA in the 1950's, however they would be wrong... In 1869 a ...
Hugo Creeth6 minThe Art of IVFWhat is ART? Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) is the technology employed through various procedures in order to combat infertility in the human conditi...