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Bending proteins to make breast cancer drugs more effective

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

Imagine you are trying to prevent a water leak, so you plug the hole from where the water is escaping. Except after a while, the water starts leaking slowly from another hole. As you can imagine, this does not solve the problem.

Similarly, current targeted therapies, such as the drug trastuzumab, have limited efficacy in combating invasive breast cancer cells.

These methods target a specific protein, HER2, which appears at a higher concentration on the surface of invasive breast cancer cells...

Breakthrough for Preeclampsia

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

A team of scientists have created the first ever 3D printed placenta in order to study preeclampsia more effectively.

Preeclampsia is thought to affect 5-10% of all pregnancies worldwide, and severe cases develop in 1-2% of pregnancies.

The exact cause of preeclampsia remains unknown but is thought to occur when there is a problem with the placenta, the organ that connects the mother to the baby.

Despite preeclampsia being the current leading cause of death from pregnancy, there are very few...

Gluten free diet- is it worth the hype?

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

We've all seen the gluten-free labels in supermarkets and cafes or know someone who is "gluten-free" at the moment for the health benefits.

But is a gluten-free diet really worth all that effort?

A recent article by Dr. Norelle Reilly at Columbia University outlined the facts and fiction behind this new health trend, which may surprise you.

Gluten is a part of wheat and is added to bread products to make them more elastic.

A gluten free diet is critical for someone who suffers from wheat...

Gut bacteria help brain cell growth

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

Antibiotics have been shown to have a profound effect on the growth of new brain cells and memory retention in mice. A recent study has shown that antibiotics can wipe out good gut bacteria and that they can also prevent the growth of new brain cells. There is little previous evidence showing links between the brain and bacteria in the gut.

A new study by scientists at the University of Magdeburg and the Max-Delbrueck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, found that prolonged antibiotic use...

How forgetting helps us learn

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

Our brain is a complicated part of our body. We knew that...but that knowledge does not stop us from being taken aback because a study has just found out that we may be forgetting to remember! There is a kind of memory that is formed based on new experiences containing spatial information. When we retain data such as where an object was positioned or what was the place where something happened, we are 'learning'. This creates what is known as an episodic memory. The area in the brain in charge...

Stuck with your Ex's DNA

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

To be told that you look like your father can be a comforting thing. To be told that you look like your mother's ex-boyfriend is more than just a little disconcerting, to say the least! A recent study using Neriid flies has shown that offspring resembled the mother's previous sexual partners more than the male that actually fertilized the egg.

Dr. Russell Bonduriansky of the University of New South Wales, Australia commented that his research is an 'example of the surprising possibilities that...

Burning sugars to light up brown fat

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

Do you recognize that warmth when you wake up on a cold morning snuggled under a blanket? A recent study reveals that you owe this glorious feeling to a unique type of fat cell - the brown fat.

This fat cell is unlike it's cousin- the white fat, which is typically stored around the waist causing obesity when in excess and distressing when you stand in front of a mirror! In fact an abundance of brown fat is associated with being lean and a low glucose level- a sugar, excesses of which causes...

Gut microbiome protects against malaria

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

The WHO estimates that 214 million cases of malaria were reported worldwide in 2015, mostly in Africa (88%), South-East Asia (10%) and the Eastern Mediterranean Region (2%). Children under five are particularly susceptible to the severe form; over 306,000 children under five died due to malaria last year.

Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium, which has an intricate vital cycle that involves two different hosts to reproduce.

One of the development stages of the parasite happens in...

Meet Zika, 2016's Ebola

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

Just as we thought that we had turned a corner and had Ebola under control, a new monster rears it's ugly head in the form of the Zika virus.

The most common symptoms of the virus are fever, rash, joint pain and an eye infection known as conjunctivitis. It is estimated that only 1 in 5 infected people get symptoms, which usually last for a few days. No one knows yet how long the virus incubates in the body before the symptoms appear.

Unlike Ebola, people rarely die of Zika virus and the illness...

Worry as Zika Escalates

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

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Just as we thought that we had turned a corner and had Ebola under control, a new monster rears it's ugly head in the form of the Zika virus.

The most common symptoms of the virus are fever, rash, joint pain and an eye infection known as conjunctivitis. Only 1 in 5 infected people present with symptoms and the time taken from infection to presentation of symptoms is still unknown.

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Friends or Foes: the GMO debate

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

Love them or loathe them, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are very much part of modern life.

It has been normal practise in livestock breeding to select individuals with desirable traits to breed together in the hope of achieving multiple desirable traits in the offspring.

A simplistic example, crossing a horse known for speed with a horse of desirable coat colour would ideally give you a fast horse with the desired coat colour.

Of course, this form of artificial selection does not...

A question of how much hormone helps improve IVF success

May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM

Infertility is the impossibility to conceive after one year of regular attempts in the absence of a contraceptive. Usually infertility is a complex issue because causes are varied and can combine masculine and feminine disorders requiring an individualized study of each case. However, in 30% of all occurrences there is a documented feminine cause. For most women emotional consequences of not getting a pregnancy after some time are usually taxing and devastating. In industrialized countries,...

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