Monthly Archives: September 2013

Student named national cancer charity’s top volunteer

Posted on September 20, 2013 by aq25

An exceptional University of Kent student who steered the student-led group Kent Marrow to sign up over 100 people to the national bone marrow donor register has been named as a top volunteer by blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan.  Katy Burnett, … Continue reading →

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‘These children will have only two biological parents, not three’

Posted on September 20, 2013 by aq25

Professor Darren Griffin, a genetics and fertility expert at the University of Kent, has commented on the government’s decision to allow the creation of babies using DNA from three people. The new IVF technique could help eradicate inherited diseases within … Continue reading →

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Scientific breakthrough reveals how vitamin B12 is made

Posted on September 20, 2013 by aq25

A scientific breakthrough by researchers at the University of Kent has revealed how vitamin B12/antipernicious anaemia factor is made – a challenge often referred to as ‘the Mount Everest of biosynthetic problems’. Vitamin B12 is pieced together as an elaborate … Continue reading →

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Summer Placement

Posted on September 20, 2013 by

Well, it’s nearing the end of my summer placement now and it has been a great experience. The only obstacle that I came across was the difficulty of accessing medical articles for students online. The spreadsheet is all completed and … Continue reading →

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Third Week of my Hospital Placement.

Posted on September 19, 2013 by

In the past week I have been reviewing the literature already written on Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy and writing a small report.  I have struggled with access to journal articles but have learnt a great deal on how serious some of … Continue reading →

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The end… and Goodbye

Posted on September 18, 2013 by

It is finally over… a bit relieved and a bit sad. It was time to fly back home to England. We finished our poster and presented it with great success. It was quite an exciting and worthwhile venture…. where I … Continue reading →

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Presentation Day

Posted on September 14, 2013 by

So… the big day arrived! This is the day that we had to present our poster to the attendees and interested audience at the conference. We started bright and early with a lovely American breakfast of yummy pancakes… and then … Continue reading →

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Same old same old.

Posted on September 13, 2013 by

Hello again, it must have been a while now since I last updated you all on what I’ve been up to. Well since the last time, I’ve just been plodding on as before, retrieving the physical case notes and finding … Continue reading →

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Fourth and Fifth Weeks of my Hospital Placement.

Posted on September 8, 2013 by

During these weeks the project moved on from still images to dynamic images which were slightly more difficult to work with.  In dynamic imaging the patient is still scanned for five minutes at each time interval (images produced 0, 30, … Continue reading →

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Our trip to Seattle….

Posted on September 5, 2013 by

So, the end result of all this research was to present our findings and conclusions at an international conference, which took place in Seattle, Washington in USA this year. The conference was called ARVO- Association for Research in Vision and … Continue reading →

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