We think of life in utero (during pregnancy) as a quiescent environment for the developing foetus. However the reality is...
genetic disease
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Kuru, Fatal Familial Insomnia - in what may seem like a list of ruthless and incurable neurodegenerative diseases...
Biopsy of small bowel showing coeliac disease manifested by blunting of villi, crypt hyperplasia, and lymphocyte infiltration of crypts (from...
“You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows...
We have all suffered the unpleasant sensation of pain, whether it’s caused by the intense throbbing of a stubbed toe...
In the autumn of 2012, a paper was published in the journal ACS Nano that proposed a model for understanding...
This article is taken from the Winter 2011 issue of I, Science. Jo Poole talks brain cells, ‘roborats’, and how...
Should we all be sequencing our own genomes? It’s often said that “it’s what’s inside that counts”. From a medic’s...
