Liposomes. Annie Cavanagh. Source: Wellcome Collection. Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Mary Poppins once sang: “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” A catchy song, but little did she know just how true that statement could become. Who would have thought that she might actually have been predicting the future of high-tech, ultra-precise nanoscale drug-delivery…
Liposomes. Annie Cavanagh. Source: Wellcome Collection. Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child “Just a… spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go dooooown!” Photo by Immo Wegmann on Unsplash You know that song from Mary Poppins? Well, it turns out it might actually be true! Scientists have found a clever way to use sugar to help medicines travel to exactly the right…
Image: Leishmania mexicana parasites in the promastigote stage, SEM. University of Oxford, Richard Wheeler. Source: Wellcome Collection. Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child You might not have heard of it before, but there’s a disease called Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, or CL for short. It’s caused by a teeny-tiny parasite that lives inside sand flies (yes, those little buzzing insects!). When an infected…
Image: Leishmania mexicana parasites in the promastigote stage, SEM. University of Oxford, Richard Wheeler. Source: Wellcome Collection. Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child You might not have heard of it, but Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is far from rare. Caused by a tiny parasite carried by sand flies, it leaves slow-healing wounds that can develop into lasting scars….
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Imagine you’re an astronaut coming back to Earth after weeks of exploring space. You feel amazing after such an incredible adventure.But deep inside your body, something surprising is happening: your cells (the tiny building blocks that make up everything inside you) are stressed! NASA astronaut Anne McClain is…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Astronauts may return to Earth looking triumphant, but inside their bodies, time seems to move faster.A new study shows that just a month in space can accelerate ageing in human blood-forming stem cells. NASA astronaut Anne McClain is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft. NASA Headquarters…
Image by Julien Harneis., CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Imagine getting ready for school, but not being able to go.Your backpack is packed, your friends are waiting — but you’re too tired and sick from a disease called snail fever. Diseases like this don’t just make people…
Image by Julien Harneis., CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Imagine a newborn baby in Bolivia, healthy and full of promise. His family is overjoyed, but hidden inside him is a silent threat: a disease passed on from his mother, one that could quietly damage his heart and…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child In some parts of Africa, a small fly can cause BIG problems. For years, doctors have been puzzling over how to help people who get sick after its bite. Now, they’ve discovered a new, safer medicine, and it could change lives. Meet the Tsetse Fly and the Parasite…
A new study shows a safer, simpler treatment for the deadly, neglected disease that has long challenged rural communities in Africa. Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Imagine being bitten by a fly and falling so ill that you are told your only treatment option carries serious dangers of its own. A tiny parasite…
