by Iliyah | Feb 16, 2022 | Agricultural Science, Life Sciences & Biology
Dr Keerti Rathore – Bioengineered Cotton Could Help Solve World Hunger Humans have relied on cotton’s textile fibre for nearly seven millennia. However, utilising cottonseed as food has been a long and unfulfilled goal of many plant breeders. Along with its...
by Iliyah | Feb 11, 2022 | Life Sciences & Biology, Medical & Health Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience
Dr Y. Peng Loh – Discovery of Neurotrophic Factor-α1 Reveals New Treatment Strategies for Stress-induced Neurodegenerative Diseases and Depression Stress produces numerous negative effects on the human body. Lying deep within the brain, one particularly...
by Iliyah | Feb 9, 2022 | Life Sciences & Biology
Dr Madeleine Beekman – Unravelling A Biological Mystery: Why We Inherit More Maternal DNA Around 1.5 billion years ago, our single-celled ancestor had a fateful snack – it engulfed another bacterium. The engulfed organism initially lived within the other, but...
by Iliyah | Feb 2, 2022 | Life Sciences & Biology, Medical & Health Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience
Dr Martin Schwarz – Mapping the Brain’s Neuronal Networks to Understand Behaviour The human brain is wonderfully complex. Billions of neuron cells connect in unique ways to create networks that determine each individual’s brain function and consequent behaviour....
by Iliyah | Feb 2, 2022 | Life Sciences & Biology, Medical & Health Sciences
Dr Aliccia Bollig-Fischer – Understanding Why Obesity is a Risk Factor for Cancer Cancer can be caused by genetic mutations or epigenetic alterations, which are changes to the way DNA is processed, rather than to the DNA itself. These changes can be brought...
by Iliyah | Feb 1, 2022 | Life Sciences & Biology, Medical & Health Sciences
Dr Mikail Abbasov – Discovering Unmapped Molecular Targets for Novel Covalent Drugs Covalent drugs are molecules that irreversibly bind to specific, targeted sites in the body. They work to inhibit the disease-causing functions of certain proteins by preventing...
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