Dr Markus Meissner There are three of us in Markus Meissner’s office at Glasgow University. So chances are one of us has Toxoplasma gondii living in our body, he says. Scientists call it Toxo for short. It’s a single-celled parasite that reproduces inside cats but doesn’t stay there. “Toxo produces millions of eggs in the cat’s intestine,” says Dr Meissner. [...]
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Dr Lisa Ranford-Cartwright is a bit like a racehorse breeder. They mate fast horses, hoping to get more fast horses. She mates deadly parasites, hoping to get more of them. It sounds a strange thing to do. But if scientists could learn what makes some parasites deadlier than others they could save many lives. Malaria is caused by a [...]
24-Nov-2011 There are three people in Markus Meissner’s office in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology at Glasgow University. So chances are one of us has Toxoplasma gondii living in our body, he says. At first this sounds like bad news. Toxoplasma is a single-celled parasite that breeds inside cats but doesn’t stay there. “The parasite has a complicated [...]
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“My mum likes to hear about my work,” says Sonia Rocha, a lecturer at the University of Dundee and a researcher there in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression. “She isn’t a scientist – none of my family are. But they are interested in what I do.
“Action speaks louder than words,” said Mark Twain, “but not nearly as often.” Words are all around us. On web pages, text messages, road signs, billboards, magazines, newspapers, books, stamps, forms, business cards, price tags, clothes labels, fridge magnets, and ten pound notes. Words are everywhere. No matter where you look you can’t get away from words. So reading them [...]
Dr Markus Meissner There are three of us in Markus Meissner’s office at Glasgow University. So chances are one of us has Toxoplasma gondii living in our body, he says. Scientists call it Toxo for short. It’s a single-celled parasite that reproduces inside cats but doesn’t stay there. “Toxo produces millions of eggs in the cat’s intestine,” says Dr Meissner. [...]
Biology is complicated these days. Actually it always was. We just didn’t realise it. More
Rett Syndrome is a distressing disorder of young girls. They seem to grow fine at first, but around the age of 2 or 3 normal development ends. More
The machinery of life is incredibly complex, says Julian Blow, deputy director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression at Dundee University. More
Dr Lisa Ranford-Cartwright is a bit like a racehorse breeder. They mate fast horses, hoping to get more fast horses. She mates deadly parasites, hoping to get more of them. It sounds a strange thing to do. But if scientists could learn what makes some parasites deadlier than others they could save many lives. Malaria is caused by a [...]
24-Nov-2011 There are three people in Markus Meissner’s office in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology at Glasgow University. So chances are one of us has Toxoplasma gondii living in our body, he says. At first this sounds like bad news. Toxoplasma is a single-celled parasite that breeds inside cats but doesn’t stay there. “The parasite has a complicated [...]
The secret to success in combining a research career in science with family life is simple, says Anna Amtmann – and surprisingly old-fashioned. “Marry the right man,” she laughs.
For someone who claims to have been “spectacularly bad at maths at school”, Dan Haydon seems to have made a strange career choice. “I develop and apply mathematical models to populations,” he says. More
“My mum likes to hear about my work,” says Sonia Rocha, a lecturer at the University of Dundee and a researcher there in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression. “She isn’t a scientist – none of my family are. But they are interested in what I do.
Dr Markus Meissner There are three of us in Markus Meissner’s office at Glasgow University. So chances are one of us has Toxoplasma gondii living in our body, he says. Scientists call it Toxo for short. It’s a single-celled parasite that reproduces inside cats but doesn’t stay there. “Toxo produces millions of eggs in the cat’s intestine,” says Dr Meissner. [...]
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For someone who claims to have been “spectacularly bad at maths at school”, Dan Haydon seems to have made a strange career choice. “I develop and apply mathematical models to populations,” he says. More
“Action speaks louder than words,” said Mark Twain, “but not nearly as often.” Words are all around us. On web pages, text messages, road signs, billboards, magazines, newspapers, books, stamps, forms, business cards, price tags, clothes labels, fridge magnets, and ten pound notes. Words are everywhere. No matter where you look you can’t get away from words. So reading them [...]
