Going with your Gut - An Alternative Approach to Alzheimer’s What do the bacteria in our gut have to do with Alzheimer’s Disease in the brain? A recent paper has revealed a potential link between gut bacteria and the deterioration of brain cells in mice. By Mollie Huggins. UCL Science Magazine • Biology
Hitting the Mark: How Nanoparticles are Revolutionising Cancer Treatments Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally - nanoparticles could help combat this epidemic through targeted drug action. By Rakshith H and Nidhi V. UCL Science Magazine • Biology
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
