To Live Forever: What the Hydra Teaches Us About Aging
Can humans ever achieve immortality? Thomas explains why this may be impossible, referring to a small species of non-ageing jellyfish.
Tagged: DNA
Love at first…bite? The bizarre love life of the deep-sea anglerfish
True love’s first (and only) kiss. Jennifer investigates the unusual approach deep-sea anglerfish take to finding love.
Abolishing anonymity: the implications of genetic sequencing technology
Emily May Armstrong investigates the ethics behind genetic sequencing companies, and the bizarre secrets these technologies can uncover.
Keeping the (cellular) memories alive
Whether good or bad, our memories reflect our experiences throughout our lives, but do memories shape us even from within our cells? Jennifer investigates.
Discovery of the double helix – the unknown competition
Caitlin investigates the controversial discovery of the DNA structure. What were the techniques used and were the correct people honoured for the discovery?
Robots, Computers and Hard drives: The age of DNA?
Humanity has a problem with the volume of information we are producing, in the last two years alone we produced more data than we have before in all of human history . From...
The Viruses in Your DNA
DNA from other organisms can trickle down to our genomes. Should we be worried?
Schrödinger’s Mutations
Alisha delves into the strange world of quantum tunnelling and how it may lead to spontaneous DNA mutations.
