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Welcome to Beyond. This is a space where we discuss topics that are far too interdisciplinary to categorise. Challenge traditional norms and question the unquestionable in areas like the philosophy of science, sociology, anthropology and more.

Busting the Baby Blemish Boom: Everything That's Wrong With Baby Skincare Trends

Busting the Baby Blemish Boom: Everything That's Wrong With Baby Skincare Trends

Wellness trends appear to come and go at a rapid rate. The latest of these trends targets the very youngest of us. Baby skincare is the new craze encouraging parents to perfect their baby’s skin using products. Is this beneficial for these children or can this new trend cause

Sticking it to Cancer: How Molecular Glues Could Transform Treatment

Sticking it to Cancer: How Molecular Glues Could Transform Treatment

Imagine a therapy that forces rogue cancer-causing proteins to self-destruct. Molecular glues offer just that — a ground-breaking avenue in targeted protein degradation, especially when conventional cancer drugs fail. By Neelabh Datta. These small molecules foster binding interactions between harmful proteins and degradation signallers known as E3 ubiquitin ligases - these

Narrative Medicine: Putting the ‘Care’ in Healthcare

Narrative Medicine: Putting the ‘Care’ in Healthcare

Healthcare services are facing a major paradigm shift with the collapse of key clinician-patient relationships. Narrative medicine, however, may just be the harbinger to bringing the ‘care’ back into healthcare. By Obomate Briggs.

The Unknown Genome: A Message Lost in Translation

The Unknown Genome: A Message Lost in Translation

Learning about your genome has been crucial now, more than ever. From population studies to precision diagnostics and experimental therapies, genomics is paving the way for modern medicine. Ground-breaking? Absolutely. Beneficial to us all? Perhaps not as much as we think so. By Nitish Aswani.

Why We Need to Destigmatise Psychedelics to Reform Mental Health Systems

Why We Need to Destigmatise Psychedelics to Reform Mental Health Systems

With our current lack of understanding of psychopharmacological medications, ground-breaking therapies are long overdue. It is up to legislative frameworks to liberate psychedelics, amongst other classed substances, to reform mental health systems. By Anushka Barthwal.

Infinitely Paradoxical: How Contradictions Influence Science Today

Infinitely Paradoxical: How Contradictions Influence Science Today

Do we really think we know what we know? Two millennia after Achilles raced the tortoise and our exploration of how paradoxes challenge scientists continues to unravel new understandings of nature. By Daniel Bilsborrow.