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Sarvenaz Hosseini The news has been full of reports about the new vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech. But how does it actually work? Impact writer and Pharmacy PhD student, Sarvenaz Hosseini explains. How Do Vaccines Work? Vaccination involves introducing the body to a weakened or inactivated pathogen so that in the...
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Sarvenaz Hosseini Would you want your cells to live on beyond your death without your consent? How would your children and grandchildren feel knowing bits of you are in labs all over the world without you or them having a say? Studied and examined. Your...
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Sarvenaz Hosseini Meet Sentinel-2a and Sentinel-2B. They are twin satellites operating simultaneously while positioned half-a-world away from each other. Weighing in at 1.2 tonnes each, they orbit our planet together. Sarvenaz explains some of the applications of these amazing satellites. The Sentinel-2 satellites constantly take photos of the planet....
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Tucked away between Rooster’s and Maccy’s on Angel Row in Nottingham city centre exists a gem: Heavenly Desserts. Somewhat inconspicuous from the outside, we entered an elegant and neutral toned franchise similar to a hotel lobby and were greeted by Gonçalo Santks, the assistant manager. While other customers were...
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“Yo Mama” is a project inspired by Uber and mums while being born from the Nottingham Entrepreneurs Launchpad event in December 2016 by Inshaal Ahmad and Adnaan Shakur. It’s simple, all you have to do is fill out a survey and get your homemade dish delivered to either Jubilee...
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Known for our hiking adventures, my granddad and I were always out and about in the mountains of Tehran and north of Iran, until one day he discovered he found himself increasingly short of breath. Within a few days and after a medical check-up we found out that his coronary...
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Cinnamon has seen-a-man or two in history (sorry)… Impact writer Sarvenaz Hosseini takes a look at the background and uses of the glorious spice cinnamon. With its earliest use being from around 2000 B.C for the embalming process, cinnamon is a spice that has always been used by humans....