BRCA1/2 gene mutations and cancer prevention: What you need to know
7,400 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the UK each year. Approximately 15% of these diagnoses are linked to a BRCA1/2 gene...
The CRISPR Gene Editing Method:
Scientists have recently acquired a new and exciting toy that has the potential to save millions of lives: the CRISPR editing tool....
Bacteria in the Gut Increases Success Rates of Cancer Therapy
Humans are infected with billions of bacteria, which is higher than the number of cells in the body. However, it's not all bad news due...
Depression in the 21st century
In 2016, YouGov released a statistic that not only shocked me, but also reinforced everything I had seen at university: 1 in 4 students...
Big Pharma – friend or foe?
In 2012 British doctor and best-selling author of ‘Bad Science’, Ben Goldacre, published his new book – ‘Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies...
An Alien’s Take of the NHS
We can all agree that being a medical student is hard enough as it is. Now, imagine having to go through it all while adjusting to a new...
The Clock Gene
This September, Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the Nobel Prize for medicine for their addition to the work begun in...
Why don’t you just eat normally?
We have come a long way in understanding the processes behind mental health disorders, but the stigma of them is ever-present. Whilst...
Antibiotic resistance: a global menace
Should I finish my full course of antibiotics? That is the question on a lot of people’s minds after a new paper published in the British...
