It’s winter and the winter vomiting bug is back in action. The bug’s scientific name is Norovirus and is the main cause of acute gastroenteritis worldwide. You surely would have experienced the effects of this bug, especially if you have children going to school! If you want to know more about this bug, this article is [...]
Zika virus infection is caused by a mosquito borne flavivirus. The suspected links of Zika virus (ZIKV) with neurological disorders, as well as neonatal malformations, is a major global health concern. In February 2016, the WHO was compelled to declare ZIKV Infection as an International Public Health Emergency. This is the second article of this series [...]
We created ASK Translator to help non-native English-speaking researchers with technical translation of words and combined it with the ability to check their meanings. […]
The Zika outbreak is a major global public health emergency. In this article we discuss Zika virus life cycle and pathogenicity to understand virus transmission, infection mechanism and spread in humans. […]
ASK Scientific recently interviewed Dr Giles Yeo, Director of Genomics, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Dr Yeo's research group studies the molecular mechanisms underlying the central control of food intake and body-weight. His group is part of one of the world's foremost institutes studying metabolic diseases (obesity, diabetes and related diseases). In addition to undertaking cutting edge [...]
Nobel Prize recognises discoveries of novel therapies against parasitic infections. […]
Why not ask the journal's editor! After months of research work, you write up your results, submit the manuscript to the journal that tops your wish list and... it gets rejected! Unfortunately, rejected without even going through the peer review process. Well, you’re not alone. According to Elsevier, the largest academic publisher, up to 50 [...]
Scientific work is very precise and this can only be reflected when the write-up about such work is also precise. The idea such a document conveys is the meticulous effort that a scientist invests. Knowing some of the causes that could trip you or lull you into a false sense of having written up a good [...]
You have written up a good paper with excellent work and some really interesting findings, but do you really need to bother about the title of the article? Will the work not stand on its own merit? Does it still need an alluring title? The answer to all above questions is a definite YES! [...]
A baby boy was born from ovarian tissue cryopreserved (frozen) when the mother was 14 years old. The mother (now 27 years old) had to undergo treatment for sickle-cell anaemia before her menarche. The treatment involved myeloablative (severe/complete depletion of bone marrow cells) conditioning as part of the stem cell transplantation procedure used to treat the condition. [...]
