Everybody has white blood cells inside them, these white blood cells help us fight off infection and keep us healthy. In a drop of blood about this size • you have roughly 6,000 neutrophils. Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell. For more information on this topic see my post “What is a normal [...]
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This is another geeky post. I’ve come across a couple of links discussing “do-it-yourself research”. As yesterdays post just discussed, modern medical research is extremely expensive, so how on earth could you do it yourself? Some people are trying to make science cheaper and more accessible so anyone can do it. What’s all this about? Well, [...] Last night the winners of the 2009 Wellcome Image Awards were announced. So what? The Wellcome Trust are the UK’s largest charity and they fund medical research. The also hold an impressive library in London which is open to the public and they maintain a very large database of images. Every year they select the very [...] Not the snappiest title I know! I have intended to write a post on science and evidence based medicine for a while but I didn’t know where to start. It’s a huge topic and not one that can be covered in a brief blog post. As a scientist I have been taught to read the scientific [...] I don’t know how I missed this, I don’t watch a lot of TV (and most of what I do watch is Cbeebies, but that’s another story…) The BBC are airing a new, short (3 episode!) series called “The Cell“. It is about the scientific attempt to study the building blocks of life, in all [...] Normal blogging service resumes. If there are any topics you would like to see covered in the coming weeks, please use the “Contact Us” form to email me. I want to draw attention to an upcoming course in Aberdeen, this Thursday, the 6th of August 2009. The session is being run by Breast Cancer Care and [...] |
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