Transmitted by the tsetse fly, Trypanosoma brucei, the African Trypanosome is a single-celled parasite that can cause African sleeping sickness.
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Transmitted by the tsetse fly, Trypanosoma brucei, the African Trypanosome is a single-celled parasite that can cause African sleeping sickness.
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In the past month, two new treatments for multiple sclerosis have hit the headlines. One STEM cell-based therapy is being touted as a ‘game changer’ in many reports and the other drug-based approach, published in The Lancet, looks very promising.
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An article I wrote for the Earlham Institute about how new technology and stringent sample QC can help answer our biological questions.
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In recent times, we have seen a rise in anti-vaxxers, anti-GM sentiment and my personal favourite, a resurgence in the flat earth theory. How can this happen in such an information-rich age?
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Within the context of food and crop production, Genetic Modification is generally used to make an organism more useful to us, such as to create plants with increased nutritional value or to change an organism in such a way that it provides us with a service – such as producing foreign proteins. A primary reason for its initial application to agriculture was to increase the output and hardiness of crops.
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This, my first entry, was inspired by watching the third episode of Dara O Briain’s Science Club on the BBC iPlayer.
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