by Iliyah | Sep 21, 2018 | Medical & Health Sciences
Professor David Furness – Understanding Hearing at the Cellular Level How do we hear and process sound? Professor David Furness at Keele University, UK, is endeavouring to answer this question. By utilising modern microscopical techniques, his team is...
by Iliyah | Sep 14, 2018 | Life Sciences & Biology, Medical & Health Sciences
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...
by Iliyah | Sep 14, 2018 | Life Sciences & Biology, Medical & Health Sciences
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...
by Iliyah | Sep 13, 2018 | Life Sciences & Biology, Medical & Health Sciences
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...
by Iliyah | Sep 13, 2018 | Life Sciences & Biology, Medical & Health Sciences
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...
by Iliyah | Aug 30, 2018 | Medical & Health Sciences
Dr Stephen Hecht – Biological Mechanisms Link Smoking, Lung Cancer and Ethnicity Cigarette smoking is a leading cause of cancer globally. Dr Stephen Hecht and co-workers at the University of Minnesota are investigating the substances present in cigarette smoke...
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