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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 e...

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

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...

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

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

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

The Genetic Discovery: DNA Many believe that Watson and Crick were the scientists who discovered DNA in the 1950's, however they would be...