1 million. That’s around how many people die each year from malaria, with most victims mere children. In fact by the time my three minutes are up, up to 5 or 6 more people would ...
The cartoon linked here sums up pretty neatly a lot of things that are hard about being a scientist. If only science were as neat and pretty as what the press release sites and the ...
Our world was a very different place before 1928, when Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic. Weaponless we as humans were, much more vulnerable to the microscopic pathogens around us.
Cancer. The word alone invokes deep emotions in many people. For some, fear, for others, anger. This is completely understandable. During my biomedical science degree I worked in nursing with a predominant focus on patients ...
Parasites, in all their forms, artfully exploit their unwitting host. Theileria is similar to Plasmodium but infects cattle and is spread by ticks rather than mosquitoes. Here, a white blood cell infected with Theileria (labelled ...
This is the atomic resolution top-down structure of the neuraminidase protein found on the surface of the Influenza virus (individual spheres represent individual atoms). Neuraminidase is the protein, along with haemagglutinin which allows for the ...
Recently a reader asked us the below question "I would like to know what fallacy this is: It cannot be proven that there are not other life forms living in the caves of Mars, therefore ...
As a citizen or resident of any country I think it is highly important to do your best to learn at least the basics about the political system that governs over you, and of course ...
