Dr Paul Montagna – Nature’s Vital Signs: Using Bioindicators to Understand Ecosystem Health The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill was an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that may take decades to recover. In the immediate wake of the crisis, scientists...
Professor Phillip Hylemon | Professor Huiping Zhou – Bile Acids Are Not Just for Digestion Over the last two decades, bile acids have gone from being thought of as mere helpers during digestion of fats and fat-soluble vitamins, to crucial players in the...
Professor Andrea Duina – The Many Complexities of DNA Packing and Gene Expression Although fundamental to life itself, many processes involving DNA and its packing inside cells still remain to be elucidated. Here, we follow the work of Professor Andrea Duina and...
Dr Claudio Fiocchi – An Integrated Approach to Fighting Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) causes significant pain and discomfort to sufferers and severely affects quality of life. Research on IBD focusing on the individual contributing...
Professor Charles Bangham – The Forgotten Cousin of HIV The catastrophic impact of HIV – human immunodeficiency virus – is well-known worldwide. Not so well known is its distant cousin HTLV-1, human T cell leukaemia virus type 1, which also has the potential to...
Dr Mark Hixon – Combatting the Lionfish Invasion Lionfish are predators that typically inhabit Pacific and Indian Ocean coral reefs. In areas where they have been introduced, they have become troublesome invaders. Populations have spread and grown in some...
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