- Davina Stevenson
Nature produces a seemingly limitless number of compounds that are valuable for treating disease. Over 30% of the top-ten drugs prescribed in hospitals owe their origins directly to nature. In this article Davina explores how drugs find their way out of a plant and into a patient.
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- Jemima Stockton
Whether you love or loath the white stuff, it is unavoidable on your TV and in your paper. What is milk, is it good for us, and what type should we drink?
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- Gina Smith
Therapeutic cloning has all sorts of exciting possiblities. What is it? How does it work and what are the possibilities for Parkinson's, MS etc.
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- Paraminder Dhillon
Humans are one of the most formidable species on Earth. How have modern Homo sapiens come to reign over their archaic forebears, in the course of hominid evolution?
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- Ruth Williams
Humans have exceptionally large and complex brains. Ruth has a look at two genes, that seem to have played a role in our cerebral evolution.
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- Dan Gollub
Dan looks at dream interpretation again and may reveal that meaningful dream interpretation can reliably be accomplished despite the endless diversity of dream content.
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- Ruth Williams
The life of a laboratory animal is not generally an enviable one. However, for some fruitflies in San Francisco it must be pretty pleasant work. Ruth Williams looks at hangover flies - fruitfly mutants lacking the ability to handle their beer.
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- Robert Stanforth
Coincidences are just waiting to happen. For all those times you've witnessed uncanny events, or had cause to utter 'small world', mathematics will explain them before you can say the words 'conspiracy theory'. Rob explains the basis of 'Gambler's Fallacy'
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- Claire McLoughlin
Claire McLoughlin describes the chemistry of love and what happens when we fall in love, including substances that make us feel turned on, the neurotransmitters involved in orgasm and pheromones, the mediators of sexual attraction.
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- Guy Brandon
The battle between Science and Religion has left us with a choice: faith in God or belief in a rational scientific approach. But how did it come to this and what happened to trying to settle our differences?
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