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GLscience Competition

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:48:57 +0000

We are running a competition, which will run into the new year. The person who has the highest post count on January 1st 2009 will recieve a new years prize. The details of the prize have yet to be finalised but once they have been sorted we will post details here. There are no restrictions, anyone world [...]

Medical Interview Questions (Video)

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:56:48 +0000

About a month ago I posted a video on youtube, with some questions that frequently appear in medical interviews. It has recieved a positive response on youtube and so I would like to share it to with you also. Related posts Medicine interview question bank Preparing for the Biomedical admissions test (BMAT) Medical Personal Statement Example:1 My Emotional Yet [...]

How To Grow Taller

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:41:20 +0000

Height is a very sensitive issue in today’s society. As a result many companies and fraudsters have tried to exploit this to their own benefit. They do this by selling so called potions and medication that supposedly increase height. In addition there are numerous e-books which claim to help individuals become taller. These are all [...]

“Swat Proof Flies”

admin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:00:07 +0000

I’m pretty sure most of you readers will have at some time in your life tried to swat a fly and failed miserably. Well researchers from the US have provided evidence to suggest that the flies fast thinking brain allows it to sense swats and move out of the way of danger, thus explaining why [...]

Primate Models Of Disease

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:12:37 +0000

Primates are ideal models because they have even greater homology than mice and they are extremely similar to humans in terms of their genetics, anatomical features and behavioural characteristics. But because primates are very much like humans, use of primates in research is fraught with ethical and moral considerations, thus any research conducted on primates [...]

Using Animal Models In Research

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:42:40 +0000

The use of animal models in research has benefited the area of science greatly; they have allowed us to generate cures and treatments for many diseases, in addition to helping us understand the genetic and physiological effects of harmful stimuli. However there is still an ongoing debate as to whether using animal models in research [...]

Medical Personal Statement Example:1

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:49:29 +0000

My interest in the art of medicine manifested itself from a childhood fascination into the workings of the human body. This fascination gradually developed into a passion for science and led me to undertake a degree in genetics. Throughout my degree I have found the rapid developments in the area of genetics and their implications [...]

Can Evolvability Be Subject To Darwinian Selection?

admin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:06:02 +0000

This question is very difficult to prove, but theories have been postulated which attempt to explain why evolvability is a selectable trait. The difficulty surrounding selection and evolvability is that evolvability is a trait of lineages as opposed to individuals and this is where the difficulty regarding selection comes in. Kirschner et al (1998), proposed three [...]

Evolvability And It’s Implication In Drug Design

admin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:03:13 +0000

The ability of viral and bacterial pathogens to develop antibiotic resistance is a combination of natural selection and evolvability. The application of antibiotics to bacterial populations places them under a stressful environment. Bacteria and viruses are prokaryotes and therefore a lot of their genetic material is composed of RNA. RNA is genomically unstable and [...]

How Can You Test Evolvability In Experiments

admin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:00:17 +0000

During the early 1990’s scientists were more concerned about the actual resultant variation from Darwinian evolution, rather than its origin. Many scientists assumed that the origin of the variation was a product of Darwinian evolution. But recent evidence from simulations and observations of simple evolutionary systems has yielded results which prove that this is not [...]