Every once in a while, we are reminded of the wisdom in ancient tales. During the current pandemic, we are specifically reminded of one of the most famous tales of Aesop’s fables, the “tortoise and the hare”, which gave rise to the famous idiom “slow and steady wins the race”. The metaphorical race, in this […]
Bruce Beutler, an immunologist at the University of Texas and winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, was the most senior of several authors to publish the paper ‘MAVS, cGAS, and endogenous retroviruses in T-independent B cell responses’ in the journal Science in 2014. The research in the paper states that virus-like […]
In biomedical research, one key system used to model disease and test treatments are ‘immortalised’ cell lines. These are cultures of cells, taken from a patient sample or an organ biopsy, and grown in a petri dish. Under the correct conditions they continually divide and do not die, meaning many dishes can be prepared and […]