Silence of the Spiders: An outsider’s guide to spider sex
Jonathan Orgill investigates musical foreplay, bondage, genital mutilation, guarding, hypnotism and cannibalism. Also spiders.
Category: Life Sciences
Reverting Colorectal Tumours to Normal Tissue with One Gene
Colorectal cancer leads to nearly 700,000 deaths worldwide each year and is the second most common cause of cancer-related death in developed countries, including the UK. At least 80% of colorectal tumours have an...
Stress is Cool
In our first ever documentary, theGIST investigates how researchers at the University of Glasgow are making the science of stress less stressful.
T-VEC Virus Found to be Effective Treatment for Malignant Melanoma
Scientists were able to cure patients of skin cancer with a genetically modified virus, making it the first successful virus-based treatment in a phase three trial. Malignant melanoma is the most dangerous form of...
Opah fish found to be ‘warm-blooded’
Not for the first time, Mother Nature has blown our expectations out of the water (if you will pardon the pun). Looking at the moon-shaped and colourful opah, our first thought is perhaps not...
Jungle Genomics
The ability to point a device at a life form and identify it is a long-running Sci-Fi trope, but is it now one step closer to reality? Whilst remote sensing is still a dream,...
Chernobyl: How is it Affecting the Animals?
April 2016 will mark 30 years since the terrible Chernobyl disaster, which is still the largest nuclear disaster to date. After the disaster, a 30 km ‘exclusion zone’ was set up around the immediate...
Editing the Genome of a Human Embryo
The purpose of gene editing is to repair a defective gene which is responsible for a medical condition. Traditionally, gene therapy involves delivering a gene that is missing or defective to a certain part...
