New weapons in the fight against the ivory trade

Ivory trading has been illegal since 1989, but 40,000 elephants die each year because of this multibillion dollar industry. Could...

HIV and CVD: one step forward, two steps back?

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that damages the cells of the immune system, which weakens the body’s...

Each year approximately 500,000 people die from malaria. Most are children. In fact, by the time you have finished reading...

Whilst there are many different cell types in our body, each contains the same DNA. In order to perform their...

With so many contradicting headlines declaring the devastating health effects of coffee or its limitless health benefits, it can all...

We humans share roughly 98.5% of our genetic material with our closest living relatives, chimpanzees. This extraordinarily high level of...

University of Edinburgh researchers have set out to create a treatment for the Western world’s most common cause of irreversible...

Myself and a large majority of my friends are scientists. We trust in scientific consensus: we believe that climate change...

As we age, the brain coordinates the responses of thousands of cells to new psychological and social stimuli. This coordination...