Pikobodies: arming plants with a pseudo-adaptive immune system
Helena Tagg explores how bioengineering can tailor an adaptive immune system in plants, enabling them to better fend off invading pathogens.
Helena Tagg
Hidden, supposedly helpful, nasal bacteria shown to aggravate hay fever symptoms
Helena Tagg reports recent findings that hay fever symptoms are linked to bacteria living in the nasal microbiome.
Antimicrobial resistance: the world’s stealthiest killer
Helena Tagg provides an update on the crisis of antimicrobial resistance in World Antimicrobial Awareness Week.
You are what you eat: the science of superfoods
Helena Tagg debates the notion of superfoods, exploring the scientific basis (or lack of!) this commonly used marketing slogan.
Black or grey colouration can mean life or death; choose a mate wisely
Helena Tagg presents recent findings that the distribution of black wolves in North America is influenced by the prevalence of canine distemper virus, creating fluctuating selective pressures that drive mate…
What makes humans unique from our ancestors?
Helena Tagg presents a summary of Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo’s paleogenomic discoveries