Healthy horrors: the benefits of parasites
Matt Kaplan investigates the horrors that dwell within us – should we be changing our view of them?
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Matt Kaplan investigates the horrors that dwell within us – should we be changing our view of them?
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight European inter-governmental scientific research organisations. This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members.
Laurence Reed and Jackie de Belleroche discuss schizophrenia – and how functional genomics could help to identify its causes.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration of research organisations. Eleanor Hayes, Editor-in-Chief of Science in School, reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members.
Would it not be fascinating to observe and manipulate individual molecules? Patrick Theer and Marlene Rau from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory explain how, with an atomic force microscope, you can do just this. You could even build your own.
In the second of two articles, Jarek Bryk describes how scientists dig deep into our genes – to test the molecular basis of an evolutionary adaptation in humans.
Friedlinde Krotscheck describes how she used a cutting-edge science article from Science in School as the main focus of a teaching unit on the human body.
Anne Weaver, lead clinician for London’s Air Ambulance, tells Marie Mangan about her job: saving lives.
How does cancer develop, and how can geneticists tell that a cell is cancerous? This teaching activity developed by the Communication and Public Engagement team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK, answers these and other related questions.
Since the epidemic of ‘mad cow disease’ in the 1980s and 90s, and the emergence of its human equivalent, variant Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, there has been a great deal of research into prions, the causative agents. Mico Tatalovic reviews the current state of knowledge.
Healthy horrors: the benefits of parasites
Google, guts and gravity
Investigating the causes of schizophrenia
Rockets, genomes and particle accelerators
Single molecules under the microscope
Human evolution: testing the molecular basis
Using cutting-edge science within the curriculum: balancing body weight
Life savers in the sky: flying doctors
Can you spot a cancer mutation?
Deadly proteins: prions