Cell & Gene Therapy: Ethical Debates Unpacked
The Role of UCL’s Cell and Gene Therapy Experts in Shaping the Field’s Future. By Nhi Pham and Nidhi Rege
Biology
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Fighting Viral Evolution in Real Time
The difficulty in fighting viral pandemics lies in the ability of these entities to evolve solutions to everything we throw at them. But what if we had a tool to predict what they were going to evolve before they did? By Tom Dubois.
The Power of Toxin-Antitoxin Systems
The same way that bacteria protect their genetic material and cope with stress is now used in a broad range of emerging applications in synthetic biology. By Oscar Blackwell
The Babies Born with Cobalt in their Veins: How The Cobalt Mining Crisis is Impacting Congolese Children
Cobalt mining on the African Copperbelt is a well known human rights crisis for many reasons. A new study on foetal blood shows its health effects may now materialise in Congolese infants before they are even born. By Charlotte Leeds.
Smokeless Lives
Will banning future generations from smoking prevent future hospitalisations? By Altay Shaw
When Words Become Weapons
Brainwashing may seem like an alien, almost unbelievable concept to many of us. Alexandra Stein has dedicated her life to unravelling this phenomenon which robbed so many years of her life, to raise awareness of the vulnerabilities we all share that can be targeted. By Diya Asawa
The Nano Toolbox Used to Combat Cervical Cancer
(3/3) Women in developing countries are disproportionately affected by cervical cancer due to a lack of access to preventative medicine – innovations in nano-based cancer therapies are paving the way for a cancer-free future. By Mia Shepherd.