Gopika - Year 12 Student Editor's Note: Year 12 student Gopika entered recently entered this essay in the Peterhouse Kelvin Biological Sciences Essay Competition, a prestigious essay competition run by Peterhouse College, Cambridge. This is an informative, thoroughly researched and clearly presented essay that address the broad spectrum of mitochondrial shapes and sizes. CPD The … Continue reading Mitochondria are always shown as ovals; in reality they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Why?
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Neurodegeneration
Jakub - Year 12 Student Editor's Note: Year 12 student Jakub writes here for the GSAL Science Magazine on the serious issue of neurodegeneration, the progressive decline in the structure and function of neurons in the human body. Neurodegeneration lies behind serious incurable diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob. CPD [Featured image: Human brain. … Continue reading Neurodegeneration


