Chemistry

Salt, 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...

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...

Machine 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?...

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

Perhaps 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...

Drug 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 ...

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 month stage postpar...

Introduction 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 ...

Recent Advances in Cryo-Electron Microscopy Protein structures are important in understanding the molecular basis for their mechanisms of action, without str...

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...

Malaria Overview Malaria is a dangerous and killer parasitic disease that is carried by infected mosquitoes and transmitted to/between people. Its prevalence...

The 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 ...