5 amazing facts about the immune system
A single drop of blood contains around 375,000 white blood cells, and blood constitutes for seven per cent of your total body weight.
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Viral Vectors: How scientists use viruses to treat faulty cells
Image source: Getty Images Viruses specialise in getting past cellular defences to deliver genetic information into cells, but in nature they often contain genes that cause disease. However, if we strip out these damaging...
Viruses: What are they and how do they infect cells?
Image source: Pixabay These tiny packets of genetic code are the most successful parasites in the world Viruses are the tiniest biological replicators on the planet, roughly 100-times smaller than bacteria. Made from a...
The human body: What are electrolytes?
Image source: Pixabay We need these tiny ions to keep our muscles and nerves moving Our bodies are huge biochemical batteries, and to keep our nerves firing, our muscles moving and our hearts beating,...
The Human Body: How many cells do you have?
Estimating the number of your body’s building blocks is not as straightforward as it seems By the most recent estimates, the average human is made up of approximately 37.2 trillion cells. To put that unthinkably...
15 amazing science facts that will blow your mind
(Image credit: Pexels) Impress your friends with these incredible facts about the world around us 1. Babies have around 100 more bones than adults Babies have about 300 bones at birth, with cartilage between...
What’s in a name?
The biology, psychology and sociology of your name may be influencing you more than you realise Humans have an innate preference for naming shapes If you look at the characters above, which would you...
What if you fell into a black hole?
Travelling into the singularity of one of these objects would be the one-way trip of a lifetime A black hole has one of the strongest gravitational pulls of any object in the universe; get...
MicroRNA: the junk DNA controlling our genes
Discover the microRNA ‘junk DNA’ that controls at least 30 per cent of our genes
