During lockdown, I spent a lot of ‘ME’ time. I felt more refreshed and ready to start this master’s year. Of course! This year has been exciting, very challenging and most of all, after two months, made me feel like I aged 5 more extra years! Stress IS one of the causes of ageing. But […]
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Similarly to how we use buses, trains, or Uber to get to places, viruses like Dengue virus (DENV) also travel from one place to another by their own form of public transport – mosquitoes. When a mosquito takes a blood meal from an infected human, the virus from that infected human ‘travels’ to other humans […]
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Can we cure some of the worst diseases known to humanity? It certainly can be made possible using gene therapy, which is often credited as the future of healthcare. I am Amina and I will mainly be discussing my research project for my master’s year, which is to develop a new approach to improve gene […]
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Alzheimer’s Disease in the year 2014 alone cost £24.2 billion (UK), but what can be done? Alzheimer’s Disease is defined by mass cerebral atrophy i.e. the loss of brain volume, alongside the deposition of an amyloid precursor protein, and the formation of a tangle within neurons due to the over modification of a second tau […]
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Alzheimer’s Disease in the year 2014 alone cost £24.2 billion (UK), but what can be done? Alzheimer’s Disease is defined according to mass cerebral atrophy i.e. the loss of brain volume, alongside the deposition of a protein known as amyloid precursor protein, and the formation of a tangle within neurons due to the over modification […]
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New cancer treatments are needed to replace many of the current treatments that have toxic side effects. Targeting cancer cells is very difficult to do without also damaging healthy cells, however we may be able to do just that by using the cancer’s own tricks against it. A specific cancer treatment could be produced if […]
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