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The heart is one of the most important organs in the body as it delivers oxygenated blood (blood exposed to oxygen from the lungs) to our cells, allowing them to respire and release energy. This lets us move around and survive. The heart consists of many parts which work together to make it perform efficiently. Here are the functions of these parts:...
http://glamsci.blog/2021/12/31/the-heart/
Diabetes Mellitus is a common yet serious condition where your blood glucose levels (BGL) are not regulated by your body well enough. This can lead to your BGL’s being too high or too low, both of which are dangerous. Scientists are figuring out the causes of diabetes. Type 2 develops due to your body’s resistance to insulin, mainly caused by an unhealthy lifestyle....
http://glamsci.blog/2021/11/02/what-causes-diabetes/
How can doctors monitor and assess a patient’s head injury to see what’s the best course of action to take? How can they know what problem is going on in a patient’s abdomen without having to use invasive forms of surgery? How can they better understand about a patient’s mind from a neuroscientific aspect? The answer to all of these questions, and many more, is because of MRI....
http://glamsci.blog/2021/09/30/what-is-mri/
Since the first use of penicillin in 1942, antibiotic resistant bacteria have started to evolve. Usually, resistance develops quickly (a few years after drug introduction). This means that bacterial infections that once were benign could become deadly (back to how bacterial infections were prior to antibiotics). However, there are a few plans that could help combat the threat of bacterial infections....
http://glamsci.blog/2021/09/01/how-can-we-combat-antibiotic-resistance/
Surgery is a growing field. New technologies and methods for carrying out procedures are constantly evolving, making surgery much more safer and result in higher success rates. However, in the past, this wasn't at all the case. All aspects of medicine weren't as advanced and were completely different, including surgery. Anaesthesia wasn’t even around until the mid-19th century so you can probably imagine how painful surgery must have been for the patients of the past....
http://glamsci.blog/2021/08/31/the-history-of-surgery/
Everyone must have heard of the “Save the bees” movement but not everyone knows why we must save the bees and many other insect species. Many people still view insects as pests, nuisances and bugs. However, the role they play in ecosystems is essential. Firstly, insects maintain the food web, which humans heavily rely on. Without insects, producers (plants) would not be pollinated and secondary consumer, that rely on insects as a source of food, would die out....
http://glamsci.blog/2021/08/23/why-are-insects-important/
Photo: NASA Scientists have been discovering exoplanets for years. One prominent mission led by NASA was the Kepler mission which aimed to explore other stars and planets to find a planet that could sustain life. This article will try to give an insight into astrobiology and what life needs to survive on other planets The basic building blocks of life....
http://glamsci.blog/2021/08/08/what-does-a-planet-need-to-sustain-life/
Offender profiling, also known as criminal profiling and psychological profiling, is an investigative technique used by law enforcement to help catch the perpetrator(s) of crimes, especially serious ones. It is based on what type of person the perpetrator is like through analysing the crime and crime scene. Image by Emilian Robert Vicol from Pixabay There are two types of offender profiling: top down and bottom-up profiling....
http://glamsci.blog/2021/07/31/what-is-offender-profiling/
Viruses can harm us, one example being COVID-19. This is because viruses can not replicate or live by themselves. So they insert themselves into host cells (our cells) and use the host’s organelles and machinery to replicate. Once replicated, they burst out of the cell by cytolysis, killing the cell in the process. As a result, our cells are damaged and we begin to feel ill....
http://glamsci.blog/2021/07/11/how-viruses-help-kill-bacteria/
Your body needs to be able to regulate its water levels to prevent cells from getting damaged. Due to osmosis, if your body has too much water, your body cells will swell up and burst. On the other hand, if your body doesn’t have enough water, cells will shrivel up and die. Thankfully, as a result of homeostasis, which is your body’s ability to maintain a constant internal environment in order to function properly, your body is able to control its water levels to prevent this from happening....
http://glamsci.blog/2021/06/30/the-kidneys-and-controlling-water-levels/
What are telomeres? Telomeres are caps at the end of our chromosomes that protect our DNA from damage. They are made up of the same short DNA sequence repeated over and over again, with the same sequence of bases. They are important for a cells because without them chromosomes would stick together and would not divide properly during cell division. Therefore, telomeres are significant for our health as they ensure cell division occurs without damaging DNA for growth and repair of cells....
http://glamsci.blog/2021/06/25/telomeres-and-why-we-age/
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Vaccinations have become incredibly important due to COVID-19 and the vaccine rollout needs to be faster and more efficient in order to achieve global herd immunity. Vaccines, the COVID-19 vaccine being an example, are usually injections that contain dead or weakened versions of the pathogen. However, there a numerous disadvantages to these traditional vaccines: They need to be kept refrigerated from production to the time of injection....
http://glamsci.blog/2021/06/08/oral-vaccinations/