Skip to main content

About Us

Image
By

“Nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”
Теодо́сій Григо́рович Добжа́нський

 We are a group of four Genetics students at the University of Manchester.

Conrad Fallon
With great power comes great responsibility - Uncle Ben.

Lauren Goodfellow
None but those that have experienced them can understand the enticements of science - Mary Shelley.
They said the North was cold. I understood but did not comprehend.


If you came to this blog expecting the ranting of uneducated people trying to write about something they have no idea of, we will have to disappoint you. We do put a lot of thought into what we write.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The TAS2R38 Gene, PCR, Enzyme Restriction, Gel Electrophoresis, and Scientific Bias

By
An Introduction In this post, I'm going to talk about an experiment we performed to examine alleles of the TAS2R38 gene.  I also want to talk about the results I expected, why I expected them, and why this bias was incorrect.  For that, I need to begin by talking about race. On a genetic level, race doesn't exist, or, at least, it's very, very different to how it works on a social level.  People from Africa are the most racially diverse, and differ from each other more than, say, someone from England and someone from India do, on a genetic level.  That's due to the founder effect; only a small portion of the population of Africa left to populate the rest of the world, representing only a tiny fraction of humanity's genome.  The DNA of human beings, in general, is really not all that different.  For more info, take a look at  A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived  by Adam Rutherford . And yet, even knowing that, it made me happy that ...
1 comment
Read more

The Mars Analogue Missions

By
Notes on a talk delivered by Dr Rochelle Velho, Academic Clinical Fellow , with the  UK Space Environments Association , at Final Frontiers in Healthcare, organised by  ReThinkX  at Citylabs, Manchester, 16th February 2017.   Welcome back! This week, we're going to talk about Dr Rochelle Velho and her Mars Analogue missions. via GIPHY Tele-Medicine  Tele-medicine is the practice of viewing vital signs, and, if necessary, giving advice and information based on those signs, from a distance.  It's what you need to do in space; often, astronauts are working independently, very far away from help, in dangerous conditions. This also has applications on earth, both in working with patients in dangerous situations, and simply in the fact that studying bodies in space can allow us to better understand patients on earth. An important question for space travel is...should a doctor go along?  Astronauts are some of the strongest, s...
Post a Comment
Read more

Challenges of Healthcare Delivery in Zero Gravity

By
Notes on a talk delivered by Dr Daniel Grant, Aerospace Development Director for CASE medicine at Final Frontiers in Healthcare, organised by ReThinkX at Citylabs, Manchester, 16th February 2017.   Dr Grant began by explaining that, in space travel, micro-gravity is the largest factor effecting human health, particularly if people plan on coming back to earth.  Note that there is gravity in space – it's just coming, in varying amounts, from every single large mass, none of which are close enough to stick you to the floor the way earth does.  When in orbit, you're actually in free-fall, which isn't really much better.  Human bodies experience a fluid shift, with blood pooling in the head. The blood pressure set point also changes, causing problems when they come back home.  Even after as little as two weeks in space, astronauts struggle to stand up for ten minutes at a time. Dizziness Your balance is affected, and to understand this, we'll first ne...
Post a Comment
Read more