Being awake during open brain surgery is an ordeal that is inconceivable to most, but is a stark reality for many sufferers with epilepsy and brain tumours. Early research provides compelling evidence that hypnosis-aided awake […]
Do Young Blood Transfusions promote Regeneration and Rejuvenation?
The key to a longer and healthier life may be closer to us than we thought. It’s location? Our blood; but more specifically, the blood of the young. Earlier this year, the US medical start-up […]
Testing Where Students Draw the Line on Animal Experimentation
Members of Animal Justice Project (AJP) gathered outside the Parkinson Steps on Tuesday 26th February in protest against the University of Leeds’ use of animals in experiments. Wearing surgical masks and holding laptops showing emotive […]
Over 200,000 Animals Used for Research in 10 Years at the University of Leeds
From 2007-2017, the University of Leeds used 210,103 animals for experimental research under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. Of this figure, 94.3% were rats and mice, 1.5% were pigs, and the remainder consisted of […]
Calimari with a Side of Ecstacy, please
Elephants on LSD, bees on cocaine, and now to add to the mix of bizarre scientific studies… Octopuses on MDMA. Dr. Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, recently published […]