humans and disease

Yasmin Azizbayli March is not only a month of endometriosis awareness but also a month of educating people and spreading their knowledge about a disease that is often very hard to detect. Endometriosis is a global problem that afflicts both men and women, causing chronic pain that can prevent...

Vishvajyth Ponnambalam Research conducted in the UK has found that a now obsolete hormone therapy treatment caused Alzheimer’s, a common and (currently) incurable neurodegenerative disease, by transmitting the disease between the brain tissues of patients. How did this happen and what does this mean with regards to our understanding...

Vishvajyth Ponnambalam The origins of genetic testing can be seen as early as the 1950’s, where chromosomes were individually counted per cell, being used to diagnose certain chromosomal diseases such as Downs Syndrome. It has now expanded to be able to detect changes in genes, proteins, and even single...