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Nine Things Genomes Can Tell Us About Candida Auris

Fungal diseases cause more than 1.5 million deaths every year, which exceeds the global mortality for malaria. A limited number of available antifungal drugs is the mainstay of antifungal therapy. For many years, scientists have cautioned that overuse of antibiotics reduces…

Each year a number of Medical Sciences undergraduate students go on placement for a year between their third and fourth year. The placement can be in a commercial company (industry) or an academic environment. The placement year allows the students to further develop their skills and knowledge in an applied…

Summer placements for undergraduate students studying medical sciences at the University of Aberdeen have been successfully running this summer, despite the restrictions of COVID-19.

Students have been working remotely within research teams in the School, studying a wide range of topics. These include regulation of the ACE2 gene in COVID-19,…

Hi everyone, my name is Abie and I am a 3^rd-year Physiology student. I am currently doing a summer research project and I’ve just come on here to tell you a little bit about my project. Despite COVID-19, I am fortunate enough to be able to work on my research…

Heya. My name is Malin Håkansson and I am a third-year neuroscience with psychology student from Sweden. I am currently a summer research student in the Aberdeen Spinal Injury Research Team.

Spinal cord injuries cause drastic lifelong changes for individuals which can greatly impact their quality of life and currently…

For four weeks now, I have been working on a remote project supervised by Prof Iain McEwan. I am using different databases to explore the regulation of the human ACE2 gene, which codes for a protein implicated in COVID-19. My hope is to discover regulatory sequences of ACE2, as well…

This project aims to compare different biological imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT) and 3D photogrammetry using human archaeological remains issued from Marischal College at the University of Aberdeen. The CT-based 3D model will be used as a reference model for the comparison of the 3D photogrammetry models. This…

Hello all, it is officially my seventh week as a summer intern at the University of Aberdeen’s Spinal Cord Injury Research unit. But first, let me introduce myself, I am Anastasia, a vibrant 21-year-old who loves to run, dance and has a natural voracious curiosity for science, particularly chemistry. More…

Hi! I´m Alina, I´m a third-year pharmacology undergraduate and due to the current circumstances, I am working on a summer project from home. For the last four weeks, I have been writing a review investigating the role of POPDC1 in the progression of cancer. The POPDC1 protein (Popeye domain containing…