Staying Ahead of the Race
Editor's Letter Viruses – small, subcellular agents that require a host to multiply. Are they alive or are they biological chemicals? Whatever they are, these microscopic parasites are a part of...
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Toxins: A Double-Edged Sword
Editor's Letter When I was an undergraduate, I remember sitting in the lecture theatre, astounded by the natural world as my professor taught us how we can utilise animal toxins for medicines. For a...
Small Steps, Big Impact
Editor's Letter I recently read an article about how Asian elephants mourn the dead—how they kick, nudge, and shake the carcass, perhaps in hopes of having them rise up again. In some cases, female...
New Technologies for Healthy Ageing
Editor's Letter Across the board, life expectancy has increased dramatically since the early 19th century, with the global average lifespan above 70 years old. By 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world...
Improving Reproductive Health
Editor's Letter Getting pregnant is harder than it looks, with 40 to 60 per cent of fertilised eggs failing to contribute to live birth. Couple this with cultural, societal, and economic changes,...
Closing the Gap in Cancer
Editor's Letter According to data from 2015-2017, approximately 39.5 per cent of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. As the world continues to age, the annual...
New Year, New Drugs
Editor's Letter The field of pharmacology has been around for a long time with the first recorded prescriptions finding roots in Ancient Mesopotamia. Since then, drug development and manufacturing...
A Future Intertwined With Intelligent Machines
Editor’s Letter Films like Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner have painted a dystopian future with robots living among our human society, and while such smart machines are expected to further permeate...
The Importance of Early Intervention
Editor’s Letter How much of our lives are due to chance and how much of it is due to our choices? In biology, we learn that a series of transcription, translation, and replication make us who we...
In Search of Ourselves
Editor's Letter For decades, Hollywood has shaped our idea of extra-terrestrial life, feeding into our imagination of an alternate reality – painting them as heroes like in Marvel movies or as...
A Bright, Blazing Future
Editor's Letter According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, unless there are prompt and large-scale actions taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions now, the...
But What Is Cancer, If Not Cells Persevering?
Editor's Letter Cancer is characterised by the uncontrolled division of cells. While our cells have a built-in proofreading mechanism to ensure that the DNA bases encoded is the right one, the more...