COVID-19 may trigger diabetes
Visualization of the COVID-19 virus. Image credit: Fusion Medical Animation, Unsplash There is emerging evidence that the relationship between COVID-19...
Dexamethasone: a steroid superhero?
With the US buying up the world’s stock of Remdesivir, will dexamethasone emerge as the wonder cure to save lives...
Stem cells could bypass embryo laws to shine a light on human development
10 (left) and 11 (right) day old embryos cultured in vitro during the study that broke records by sustaining embryos...
Rewriting astronomy: have gravitational waves revealed an object to fill the mass gap?
An artist’s rendition of a mystery object in the ‘mass gap’ found by LIGO and Virgo. Image credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt...
You are what you eat: is cannibalism a good idea?
Cannibalism in Brazil, engraved by Theodor de Bry, 1655. Image credit: Wellcome Library, London. CC BY 4.0. During lockdown I,...
Has lockdown sparked a change in our energy habits?
Working from home is the new normal. Image credit: Pexels, Pixabay We like to think that, as individuals, we are...
Is this it for Human Evolution?
Image Credit: Vector Open Stock via Flickr Humankind, in all our arrogance, have always told ourselves that we were different...
The ABCs of Life on Earth
Image credit: Pixabay Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh,...
The novel coronavirus is mutating – Should we be worried?
Image Credit: Pete Linforth via Pixabay Simran Kapoor addresses emerging fears about the novel coronavirus mutating. As the novel coronavirus...