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...
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...
A war is happening beneath your nose, and the bacteria have been winning
"The world is worrying about the wrong type of apocalypse. While TV shows such as ‘The Walking Dead’ and dystopian movies have made us...
Economic Implications For One Rare Disease
In the fifth century B.C, Hippocrates described a terrible triad of iridocyclitis, genital and aphthous ulceration that swept through...
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...
Your Mental Wellbeing And How To Improve It
So what is mental health wellbeing? If we look at the World Health Organisations definition of it, it is defined as ‘a state of...
