Recognising Hidden Pain Signals in Dogs
Hayley is a trained Canine Massage Therapist and works alongside Vets and other therapists to provide holistic care for her doggy clients… Here she teaches us how to use our science and intuition to spot the pain signals in your dog and how new therapies are emerging that can help!
Splice up your life! RNA Splicing in Health and Disease
RNA splicing is an essential process in all human cells. RNA splicing takes bits of information from our genes and combines them together to make many different proteins required for correct organismal development and function.
5 top tips for quality sleep.
Dr Sian Rowsell PhD will share easily-applicable ‘life hacks’ to help you: enjoy better health, reduce workplace (or driving to work) accidents, improve your ability to learn, your decision-making and your productivity. Why is it so important to pay attention to the quality and quantity of our sleep? Dr Ron Chervin – Professor of …
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HbOT)
Sarah Todd from Oxify Leeds Ltd is coming over to talk to us about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HbOT), it’s uses, the health and sports injuries it can assist with as well as some of the research behind HbOT.
The vole truth: observing our native endemic vole subspecies on skomer island across the decades
Datasets get more valuable the longer they are collected and Dr Claire Risley has been lucky enough to be involved in the continuation of data collection on one of our most interesting mammals: the skomer island vole. Please join us on the 26th February to see the first albino skomer vole discovered! About Claire: Claire …
One Medicine: How horses can help us understand human osteoarthritis
Have you heard of one medicine? This is an approach where human and animal healthcare advance hand in hand. In research we can learn a lot about disease and how treatments work by studying different species. In the case of musculoskeletal conditions, such as osteoarthritis, horses can be used as a model organism, with veterinary …
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What is Oxygen, why it is important for the body and how it takes on ‘Magical’ qualities when delivered under pressure.
A look into why we need oxygen, some possible causes of why we lack oxygen in our body and understanding how to get more oxygen into our body through Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Speaker: Sarah Todd Director and centre Manager at Oxify
Cancer Biomarkers: What are they, and how are they useful in the fight against cancer?
Biomarkers can take many forms in the body, but in the case of cancer they are often cells (known as Circulating Tumour Cells), proteins or DNA that have been shed by the tumour and can be measured in the bloodstream of a cancer patient. More commonly, they are measured in the patient’s tumour. Ideally, we …
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