If you could know, from the day you were born, your risk of developing certain diseases, would you want to?
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Issue 29 Online: EuScireka!
Welcome to the new edition of EuSci Magazine! We will be posting and promoting each article from the magazine individually...
The Climate Crisis: Which animals will survive?
Alexandra Lesayova writes about the threespine stickleback fish; a promising model organism with respect to gaining a better understanding of...
HLA Genotype and its effect on the severity of COVID-19 Infections
Isabelle Ferenczi introduces the importance of Human Leukocyte Antigens and their potential role in determining a given patient’s response to...
How does space affect the body?
From microgravity to radiation, space is an extreme environment. Kate Summerson examines the impact this can have on the human...
Secrets of the water bear
Hypsibius dujardini, a type of tardigrade, imaged with scanning electron microscopy. Image credit: Willow Gabriel, Goldstein Lab via Wikimedia, CC...
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...
Turning invisible: lessons from cephalopod cells
Ellie Bennett looks at the way in which cephalopod cells might hold the key to turning our dreams of invisibility...
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...
