Reviewing Diabetes: 1. How insulin reduces blood glucose

November 26, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

The role of glucose in the body is primarily to maintain glucose homeostasis by signalling the removal of excess glucose from the blood stream. This is achieved through the conversion of glucose to glycogen in the muscular and hepatic tissues. This is the process through which glucose is removed from the blood plasma posterior to […]

Reviewing Diabetes: 0. A Basis for Understanding

November 22, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

Having recently completed a comprehensive review of diabetes, I have been both fascinated, by our current understanding of the complex biology underlying this disease, and horrified, by the extent to which this disease affects our society and its increase in prevalence. I intend, therefore, to share some of my findings, available in the biological literature, […]

Plastic Drug Resistance in Melanoma

November 21, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

Many people have heard of the modern wave of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections but a more pernicious form of drug resistance also manifests throughout the treatment of cancer. Therapies for cancer can largely be split into 2 separate categories; general cytotoxic and targeted treatments. Cytotoxic treatments are spatially targeted to the site of the cancer […]