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Ever since the accidental discovery of Penicillin by Alexandre Fleming in 1928, antibiotics have revolutionised modern medicine. Also known as 'anti-bacterials' they are used to treat often deadly bacteri...

The process can be broken down into 3 main stages. 1 - An Action Potential triggers Calcium Influx: when the action potential arrives at the synaptic knob of the presynaptic neurone, it s...

Osmosis is the passive movement of water across a semi permeable membrane from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.

A mutation in the viral RNA results in a change in the RNA base sequences. This can result in a change in the amino acid sequence during translation. This then changes the position of intramolecular bonds...

Cancer is a disease that occurs when cells get random changes in their genes, leading to them no longer being able to control how they grow and divide. This means the cancer cells grow and divide a lot qu...