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Tumour Trapping

26/09/2014 09:34
Glioblastoma multiforme cancer, or GBM, is the most common form of brain cancer accounting for about 50% of brain tumour cases. As with other metastasising cancers, it releases enzymes into its surrounding environment to break down surrounding tissue and divides uncontrollably, both processes...

Proton Therapy

22/09/2014 12:08
Proton Therapy has come about out of issues with the use of X-rays. Essentially the benefit is added precision and dosage of radiation. X-rays disperse from the line of fire and also continue through the tumour therefore striking surrounding, healthy, cells. Protons however,...

Ashya King: Proton Boy

17/09/2014 00:00
In August Ashya King was undergoing treatment in Southhampton General Hospital for a brain tumour when his parents removed him from the hospital without the consent of doctors after a dispute between the father of Ashya and a consultant when Ashya's father presented some internet research to the...

Gene Therapy:

01/04/2014 12:40
Gene Therapy is the attempt to treat a human by using their own cells with altered DNA as opposed to pharmaceutical drugs. The most common form involves using DNA which codes a functional, therapeutic gene to replace a mutated gene. The DNA that encodes a therapeutic protein is packaged inside...

Senescence: A Key To Immortality?

24/03/2014 13:20
Senescence is defined by the online dictionary as "the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age". Cellular Senescence is the phenomenon where diploid cells simply cease to divide, which is usually after 50 cell cycles or so. Cells can be induced to Senescence...

Dementia: Can you handle the truth?

17/03/2014 12:29
Dementia has been recognised in 60% of individuals over the age of 60 now. It is a neurodegenerative disease caused by gradual brain cell death. 25% are a result of a stroke, either ischaemic of haemorragic, although most of the time it is due to ischaemic. 75% of the time it is due to...

The Wonders of Ion Channels

03/03/2014 20:06
In 1997 David Julius and his team determined how capsaicin was involved in our registration of "heat" from chillies. Most of our sensory system is based on ion channels opening up suddenly, allowing ions to influx into a cell and generate an electrical signal. Using genetics the exact channel was...

Depression

27/01/2014 12:36
Depression is a psychiatric disorder in which someone experiences; hopelessness, dejection, poor concentration, lack of energy, inability to sleep, and, sometimes, suicidal tendencies. There are different types of depression; Seasonal affective disorder (usually brought about in winter due to short...

e-Cigarettes stubbed out for under 18`s

27/01/2014 12:07
Well, what do you know, since last week when we were looking at e-Cigarettes theyve come up in the news. I have just read on BBC news that it is now illegal to buy e-Cigarettes under the age of 18 now, in my opinion a very sensible idea. The major concern in my previous article was that it would...

E-cigarettes: No Smoke Without Fire

24/01/2014 09:15
Currently 700,000 europeans die each year as a result of smoking related illnesses so you can imagine how amazing a new product would be that produced "no harmful substances". The E-cigarette is a device which uses a heating element to vapourise a solution containing nicotine and other flavourings,...
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