Curing The Incurable: Why RNA May Be The Answer To Solving Genetic Disease
RNA, despite being known primarily for its role in protein synthesis, is a particularly effective gene therapeutic.
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RNA, despite being known primarily for its role in protein synthesis, is a particularly effective gene therapeutic.
The Duke of Cambridge has become the latest celebrity to speak out about the urgency of climate action as he announced the Earthshot Prize last week.
A network of potentially 42,000 mini satellites providing high-speed internet to the entire planet is the end goal of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink programme.
The decision to institute a national lockdown in the UK in response to the coronavirus pandemic, announced via televised address on the 23rd March, came far too late.
On Tuesday evening at 23:12 BST, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe made brief contact with the near-Earth asteroid Bennu to successfully collect a sample of rocks and dust for study upon its return to Earth.
The ESA has announced almost €3 billion of investment into “the robotic and human exploration of the Solar System”
Harvard University researchers have responded to the oil and gas giant’s criticism of their 2017 peer-reviewed analysis, which showed that ExxonMobil has misled the public about the severity of climate change.
The Blackett Lab Family is a growing collective of UK based Black physicists. In doing so, we hope to fundamentally diversify the perception of physics and physicists within the Black community and the wider scientific community
It is evident that even with this year’s evolution in the recognition of women’s achievements, the Nobel prizes are still a bastion of inequality.
Despite current estimates of a vaccine being approved by early 2021, distribution can take months meaning restrictions may not end until late next year.
Test & trace data has been (on a case-by-case basis) provided to the police, to help ensure that those legally required to self-isolate are indeed doing so.
Most recent iteration of UK's fusion reactor successfully ignited for the first time
Tech Writer Shrey Bohra thinks Nvidia should not be allowed to acquire ARM, in detriment to European tech industry and security
Science Editor Lily Sheperd discusses the effect fo the US election on science
Science Editor Julia Dabrowska reports on the results of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine trials, the first candidate vaccine in the fight against COVID-19
Vitamin D is being supplied to clinically vulnerable people in an attempt to protect them from COVID-19 symptoms
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