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. UCL Science Magazine • Biology
A Code Within the Codons? How studying patterns in the genetic code is beginning to uncover the origins of biological information and of life itself. By Tom Dubois. UCL Science Magazine • Biology
How A “Twisted DNA” Sensor Can Revolutionise Cancer Treatment Sensing of Z-nucleic acid by ZBP-1 constitutes an important line of innate immune defence, but could drugs targeting ZBP-1 signalling serve as a new and improved strategy for treating cancer? By Ziyue Kong. UCL Science Magazine • Biology
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. UCL Science Magazine • Beyond
Plenty of Fish? The first study modelling the effects of different fishing scenarios on marine ecosystems in the Western Baltic Sea has raised a dire concern towards critically endangered species, identifying overfishing as the main threat to marine biodiversity. By Charlotte Miles. UCL Science Magazine • Biology
Is Pain Really Painful? Let’s Ask Our Minds Understanding Pain Reprocessing Therapy and how our brain’s therapeutic capacity confronts conventional treatments. By Mimoun El Fantroussi. UCL Science Magazine • Biology
