Oliver Vij (@ovij) - Honouree

Oliver Vij

Cambridge/London

Cambridge Medical Student providing succinct and easy to follow summaries of current scientific events

over 8 years ago

Why do we get allergies? Many of us will get allergic reactions in our lifetimes. They can range from a minor irritancy, such as hayfever, to potentially life-threat

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Rhesus disease – When a mother’s immune system attacks her child Surely a mother’s immune system cannot attack her own, unborn child. A child is part of its mother, it shares her nutrients, her blood suppl

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What are autoimmune diseases? Why do we get them? What is autoimmunity? The immune system is designed to identify and attack foreign organisms within the body that cause disease (pathogens)

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Creating instant ice – What is supercooled water? Supercooling is the process of chilling a liquid below its freezing point, without it becoming solid. !ice cubes.jpg(

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How would you measure the volume of all the blood in your body? How would you go about trying to measure the total volume of blood in the human body? There is one simple solution to this question. Slash

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over 8 years ago

Introducing SteemStem Distilled #1 Welcome to the first issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team. SteemSTEM is a communit

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almost 9 years ago

How do enzymes catalyse biological reactions? Many of the reactions that occur in the body would happen at remarkably low rates under physiological conditions. In chemistry, a catalyst

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almost 9 years ago

The fat that makes you thin – What is brown fat? When most people think of fat, they will probably picture a tyre of flab lingering around the midriff (or something of the sort), much like

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How do cells generate energy? Everyone knows that oxygen is required to live. But, why is that the case? What is it about oxygen that is essential for life? To be able

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almost 9 years ago

Why can’t you hold your breath until you die? Hold your breath for as long as you can. !holding breath kid.jpg(

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Malignant hyperthermia – An introduction to the pathophysiology Many of you will have heard of hypothermia, a life-threatening decrease in body temperature. While hyperthermia is the opposite, a dangerous

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How do muscles contract? Contraction in the simplest sense is shortening of a muscle fibre. When muscles receive stimulation from the nervous system, the required fi

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Is 99% of our DNA junk? “Did you know 98.8% of human DNA is just junk?” “What do you mean, junk?” “It doesn’t code for proteins or contains genes. It just does no

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How does protein synthesis occur? Proteins are by far the most important macromolecule within the body. What? Proteins are just muscles, aren’t they? Yes and no. All muscle

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How is DNA replicated? Each time a new cell divides, the entire genome must be replicated in an error free manor in order to prevent cancer from arising. With arou

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