Tag: Biochemistry

Oceans make up nearly three quarters of our planet’s surface and are home to over 300,000 currently described species, with an estimated 95% of the total number yet to be discovered. But just how important are these species and why should we care to protect them? Life underwater is so fundamentally important to our existence […]

Picture Credit: FreeCliparts  The book revolves around the differences between animate and inanimate matter, and why organisms are so unique in relation to the environment that they live in. Throughout the book, Pross emphasises our ignorance towards the biological sciences, even going as far as comparing it to humanity’s understanding of physics before the 20th […]

Image Credit: Michael Dustin A memorial gathering for Oxford DPhil student Christopher Peel was held on 12 October 2018 at 4pm in the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology.  Tributes have poured in after his unexpected death on 12nd August at the age of 28. Peel was pursuing a DPhil at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology under the […]

Like an anglicised Hannah Montana, Jessica Quirke, 20, lives the dual existence of Oxford student and nation-wide professional Latin Ballroom dancer. Having won ‘Best Couple’ with her partner in the Varsity Dance Sport competition last year, Jess has gone on to become the current Scottish Champion for Latin dance, winner of the pre-amateur European Competition, […]