First up, researchers have found a way to curb the bloodthirstiness of mosquitoes with drugs that trick them into feeling...
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UCL Neuroscience Society welcome back Professor David Nutt, President of the European Brain Council and Edmond J. Safra Professor of...
Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman synthesised LSD for the first time in 1938 while attempting to produce a blood stimulant for...
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) – lack of female sexual desire – is a controversial condition. Many cite it as...
Today, the Summer 2016 I, Science magazine has been launched on Imperial's South Kensington campus and released online. To kick off a...
Perhaps the most famous chemical compounds in our bodies, chances are you've heard of dopamine. But exactly what it is has...
What is the Placebo Effect? There is a treatment that has the ability to relieve pain, treat depression and even...
Knowing the shape of proteins is crucial for our understanding of human health and for developing new drugs. To do...
Professor David Nutt, British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist, will speak about drug policy in the UK. Professor Nutt specialises in the research of drugs...
Imperial College researchers have developed a sensitive in vitro technique to screen drugs for their ability to block malaria transmission,...
"you are probably less safe driving between 4am and 6am than when you are legally drunk" The Latin words circa...
Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder affecting two million people in the UK. It is a persistent disorder of brain...
The United Kingdom needs to adopt a Breakthrough Therapy model similar to that in the United States if it is...
Medicine has been a part of human culture for thousands of years. Modern medicine now allows us to cheat death...
Themes of the last fortnight have been the growing calls for a strategy on obesity, drug experimenting and lessons from...
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. Fabry’s disease. Alkaptonuria. Ever heard of these diseases? You’re probably shaking your head. That’s because they’re rare....
Last month, nitrous oxide (also known as ‘laughing gas’, or for some reason, ‘hippy crack’) emerged as the second most...
There is no doubt that smoking is harmful. Tobacco is thought to kill nearly 6 million people every year, but...
In October 2012, the UK Drugs Policy Commission published a report, six years in the making, into the country’s current...
On the last day of my placement the psychiatric consultant told us, jokingly, that her children were banned from alcohol...
In the autumn of 2012, a paper was published in the journal ACS Nano that proposed a model for understanding...
1 Partridge in a Pear Tree Aspirin is a salicylate derived from the bark of willow trees. It is an...
Who really decides your medical treatment? The government wants it to be you, but are you really the best judge?...
Failure to consult the public on a new drug-pricing policy may store up trouble for the future. Somewhere, in the...
Should we all be sequencing our own genomes? It’s often said that “it’s what’s inside that counts”. From a medic’s...
In early December the coalition government launched its new Life Sciences Strategy, described by the Prime Minister as an attempt...
Us humans are always looking for the easy way out. If we can get someone else to do our dirty...
“Waiting those 14 hours was the most terrible experience of my life” says Parastou Khiaban. “When we saw her coming...
08/02/2006 Three years ago, after yet another Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) had failed and science seemed a never-ending series of...
