On the last day of my placement the psychiatric consultant told us, jokingly, that her children were banned from alcohol...
Jo Poole
All belief systems have constructed explanations for illness, its management and those qualified to give opinions on them. UK healthcare...
1 Partridge in a Pear Tree Aspirin is a salicylate derived from the bark of willow trees. It is an...
Cancer has been a monumental target for medical research – in the West it’s a leading cause of death, and...
In 2000, the human genome, a manuscript containing all the genes that make us human, was completed at a cost...
Who really decides your medical treatment? The government wants it to be you, but are you really the best judge?...
Does the solution to paralysis emulate an infant’s developing nervous system? Can we regrow spines? Medicine has come a long...
This article is taken from the Spring 2012 issue of I, Science. Jo Poole asks whether humans really can be...
A sad soul kills you quicker than a germ. The science behind the healing power of the mind. The mind...
Jo Poole looks into the mystery disease that has killed thousands of children in rural Africa. The Daily Mail have...
Liger and male handler The battle of the sexes is as old as time itself. George Gilder commented that “differences...
This article is taken from the Winter 2011 issue of I, Science. Jo Poole talks brain cells, ‘roborats’, and how...
Monarch caterpillar Since Watson and Crick’s seminal discovery of the double helix there’s been an emergent supposition that DNA makes...
Should we all be sequencing our own genomes? It’s often said that “it’s what’s inside that counts”. From a medic’s...
Despite none of them making it home, the scientific legacy of Captain Scott and his team remains strong 100 years...
Regenerative medicine is the field of research devoted not just to healing illness, but to replacing body parts from scratch....
Variation is the driving force behind evolution and the reason why any species persists on this planet. Yet the science...
Mind control is an unsettling prospect. Its psychology is far less obfuscated than its biology, which is fantastic for advertising...
