turlough heffernan Archives

26 FEB

HFEA granted permission to genetically modify human embryos in the UK

Turlough discusses the possible research outcomes carried out by the pioneering developmental biologist Dr. Kathy Niakan.

Last week, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute in London received the go-ahead to edit the genomes of human embryos from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). It didn’t take long for other scientists to begin issuing statements about …

SciTech

04 OCT

Can psychology research be trusted?

Can we rely on results published by researchers in the field of psychology? How reproducible are the results? Turlough Heffernan describes the Reproducibility Project and its findings.

Turlough Heffernan

Can psychology research be trusted? That was the question that Brian Nosek and his team at the University of Virginia set out to answer when they established their Reproducibility Project. As the name suggests, this was an attempt to determine …

SciTech

31 OCT

Can science explain vampires and zombies?

Turlough Heffernan

In a previous article (Bloody Perceptions), we saw how transfusing the blood of young mice into old mice could essentially reverse the ageing process and improve the memories of the old mice as well as their ability to …

SciTech

30 SEP

Let them eat insects

Turlough Heffernan

With the population of the world expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, it should come as no surprise that efforts are already underway to determine just how humanity will go about feeding so many people. Obviously, agriculture has been …