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Esters and their fruity odors – Industrial applications
By Derin Sariyel When walking past a sweet shop or a bakery shelf of fruit pastries, you might notice a scent very similar to the one you smell when trying fruity perfumes in a perfume shop. This is because the same family of molecules is responsible for many distinct, often pleasant fruity aromas, and they…
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Malaria – HOW TO STRIKE A SHAPESHIFTER
By Elena kobaly The malarial parasite, Plasmodium, exists in several infective forms, and has been a challenging target for drug development since its discovery in the late 19th century, due to its rapid life cycle and several life forms. Our immune system works by recognizing previously encountered patterns, however, this system fails once it meets…
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Unboxing Schrödinger’s Cat
By Darragh MCCANN In a 1935 review, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger first posed the now-famous “Schrödinger’s Cat” thought experiment. He began by asking the reader to imagine a cat locked in a steel box. The box has an attached apparatus in which a radioactive sample has a 50/50 chance of decaying over the course of…
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Pharmacogenomics: how personalized medicine is sculpting the future of medical treatments
By Andriana Had Imagine a world where your first prescription works exactly as intended. No trial and error, nouncertainty, no unnecessary expense. This may sound impossible, but pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine are building towards a future where this becomes a reality. Everyone’s genome, defined as the entire set of DNA instructions found in our cells…
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Think Plants Are Harmless? Meet Nature’s Hidden Predators – Carnivorous Plants
Plants are usually considered gentle and non-threatening organisms. They don’t hunt, chase, or attack animals, which makes them seem innocent by nature. But this thought falls apart when we discover that a small but fascinating group of plants has evolved the ability to trap and digest animals, making us realize plants can be predators too.This…
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Neutron Stars: Reinvention After Collapse
By Inés Martínez Marchán The formation of neutron stars The fate of a star is ultimately dependent on its mass right after its initial formation. Stars with an initial mass greater than about eight times that of the current mass of the Sun are considered massive stars and hold the capacity to form neutron stars…
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Gut bacteria: Friend or Foe? Debunking the myths of gut health.
By Aifric Mangan Our gut is made up of trillions of microorganisms that are hugely influential to our health. But with prebiotic drinks lining the shelves of our favourite stores and ‘gut friendly diets’ being all the rage, it’s difficult to distinguish truth from trend. Do these supplements really work and what can we do…
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Peripheral Immune tolerance: Nobel Prize physiology and medicine winners of 2025.
By Selin Yilmaz This year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”. What exactly does this mean? Our immune system is like our body’s army. It identifies foreign objects such as viruses, microbes and bacteria that…
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