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Category: Research in Edinburgh
Why we should be more concerned about maternal stress during pregnancy
Marie Poirot reports on a University of Edinburgh study which highlights the connection between stress during pregnancy and the development...
Bacterial prospectors take on the final frontier
Bacteria currently used as catalysts in earthbound mining processes could one day be used to extract critical elements in space...
Finding NEMO in the Sustainable Development Goals
Image credit: ThisIsEngineering via Pexels In my previous article, synthetic biology emerged as an extremely powerful tool that can help...
Synthetic biology meets the Sustainable Development Goals
Image credit: ThisIsEngineering via Pexels People, the planet and prosperity are at the core of the UN’s 2030 agenda for sustainable...
COVID-19: Unmasking the benefits of face masks
Masks could be more effective than earlier thought, blocking up to 99.9% of COVID-19 laden droplets released by infected patients...
Coronagenes: A study of the genes behind severe COVID-19
Image credit: Coronagenes, University of Edinburgh COVID-19 affects individuals in different ways. Some people are asymptomatic whereas others require intensive...
Blood iron emerges as a potential key to anti-ageing
Image credit: Jill Wellington, Pixabay Growing old may be an inevitable part of our lives, but can we overcome the...
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,...
