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Can infection cause chronic disease?
By Anusha Senevirante, Post-Doctoral researcher, Imperial College London
With non-communicable diseases (or NCDs, which include heart disease, diabetes, ca
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15th Mar 2021
Platinum based cancer drugs and next generation therapeutics
Platinum based cancer drugs
Despite nearly 50% of all
anti-cancer treatments being platinum-based, there is an urgent need to develop
novel therapeutics
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15th Mar 2021
10 reasons why you should do a science outreach event
I'll start this post off with a story. When I was half way through my PhD and I had found my passion for science communication, I approached my supervisor for the first time to ask “Can I ha
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15th Mar 2021
The double-edged sword in prostate cancer therapy
By Zoe Angel, PhD Student, Ulster University
Prostate cancer is now the commonest cancer in men and it is the fifth leading cause of death (1). Research
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15th Mar 2021
3 Reasons to Publish in Open Access Journals
Over the past few years momentum has gained in the scientific publishing community for researchers to publish their data in open access scientific journals. Open access to published research of
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11th Mar 2021
Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMP) – Review
Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMP) were first discovered in the 1960s by Dr.Marshall Urist, an orthopaedic surgeon at UCLA (Urist 1965). BMPs are classically associated with their roles in limb
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11th Mar 2021
Follicle Stem Cell Behaviour
David Melamed, Phd Candidate, Colombia University
When I started in the Kalderon Lab five years ago, I had no idea that our work would lead us to drastical
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11th Mar 2021
Fluorescence spectroscopy: An early detection tool for cancer.
Millions of people are afflicted with cancer each year. 2016 statistics for the USA alone show over half a million deaths attributed to cancer 1. We have come a long way from our early underst
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11th Mar 2021
Psychiatric disorders and lipocalin
Ana Catarina Ferreira
Psychiatric disorders, including anxiety and depression, are highly prevalent conditions and its incidence is expected to increase as i
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11th Mar 2021
A mechanopharmacology approach to overcome chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer
Mechanical forces are common in biological systems and dominate numerous perturbations that are relevant to human physiology and disease. Mechanobiology is a new field that evaluates the eff
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11th Mar 2021
Pancreatic Cancer and its Poor Prognosis
Myrna Hurtado, PhD Student, University of North Texas Health Science Center
Advancements in modern medicine have resulted in significantly prolonging and a
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11th Mar 2021
Autophagy alterations in Alzheimer’s disease
By Diana-Madalina Stan, PhD student, University of Salford
Disease Description
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, is
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11th Mar 2021
Cytokinesis review
By John Bannon PhD
Early Cytokinesis
Early cytokinesis; from anaphase to midbody formation cytokinesis is the physical s
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11th Mar 2021
Diabetic Retinopathy: premature cellular senescence and microvascular dysfunction
By Pietro Maria Bertelli, PhD Candidate, Queens University Belfast
Introduction
Eye complications are very frequent in patients with diabetes, an
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11th Mar 2021
Psychiatric disorders & LCN2
By Ana Catarina Ferreira, PhD Candidate, Univeristy of Minho, Portugal
Psychiatric disorders, including anxiety and depression, are highly prevalent con
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11th Mar 2021
From Stem Cells To Neurons: A Cnidarian Approach
By Eleni Chrysostomou, PhD Candidate, NUIG
Why do we need to know how the Nervous System develops and regenerates?
The structure and function of
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11th Mar 2021
PhD Interview tips
It’s not uncommon now for Masters or Undergraduate students to present some data or data that they produced during their research for a PhD interview process. Sometimes this can be in front of
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10th Mar 2021
Polo-like kinase (Plk1) substrates and mitosis
Polo-like kinase (Plk1)
Polo-like kinase (Plk1), is a serine/threonine kinase that is active during mitosis (Hamanaka et al., 1995). Its name is derived from its origi
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10th Mar 2021
COVID-19 Biomarkers
SARS-CoV-2 Background
COVID-19 is characterised by a series of biological markers. In some instances, these biomarkers can be used as potenti
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10th Mar 2021
A broccoli juice a day keep the heart attack away
Alex Lloyd PhD Candidate, Dublin Institute of Technology
Did you know that roughly 17.5 million people worldwide die annually from Cardiovascular diseases
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10th Mar 2021
Tocilizumab (Actemra®) in COVID-19 Treatment
Tocilizumab (Actemra®) in COVID-19 Treatment
What is Tocilizumab?
Tocilizumab, also called atlizumab, is an immunosuppress
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10th Mar 2021
Do you know…migraines affect more than 10% of the world population?
By Francisco Algaba Chueco
In this post we discuss a topic that everyone will have heard of. Let’s talk about migraines, a disorder that hides a huge ph
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10th Mar 2021
Barrett’s Oesophagus to Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma – Review
Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma is on the rise globally affecting more than 450,000 people worldwide (Pennathur, Gibson et al. 2013). Once diagnosed overall 5-year survival ranges from 15 % to 2
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10th Mar 2021
Metabolism or pluripotency – which regulates which? A chicken or the egg story.
By Sophie Arthur
How many diseases and conditions do you think exist in this world? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Maybe even millions? Unfortunately, I don’t know the answer. But what I
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10th Mar 2021