Unlocking the secrets of seaweed could have major benefits for human health.
Tag - seaweed
Marco Garcia-Vaquero
Can’t Botanists agree on common names..?
A rose by any other name... would be incorrectly described.
Nigel Chaffey
Three kinds of algae? Blooming marvellous news!
Bloom: From food to fuel, the epic story of how algae can save our world by Ruth Kassinger 2019. Elliott & Thompson. As a Botanist, especially one who has taught an undergraduate module on marine biology for over 12...
On the shore between industry and academia
Eithne Browne, Research Masters student at NUI Galway, explains how she started her research with industry as part of her research degree in at NUI Galway.
Eithne Browne
Seaweeds for a “broken heart”
Seaweed protein in your food could help you to reduce your blood pressure and the risk to suffer heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases.
Anna Atkins Photographic Pioneer
For International Women’s Day 2018, we celebrate the life and work of Anna Atkins, a pioneer of photography. She pushed the technology of her day to its limit, breaking new ground and created cyanotypes that remain...
Anna Jacob
Alun Salt
Fruit, true food for thought*
Some say fruit is connected to human intelligence, but is the idea a peach or completely bananas?
Half measures don’t work when restoring marine forests
Would you recognise a desert if it was covered in water? What I mean by that is if somewhere that should be covered in forest were barren and empty, would you notice? A paper in PLOS One outlines why it matters...
Forensic botany collection
I don’t know what the rest of the world’s TV is like but the USA and the UK– and Denmark– seem obsessed with crime dramas, especially those that explore the role of forensics in catching wrong-doers. To that end there...
The lingua franca of taxonomy
Image: Robert Ricker, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Encouraging students to face their fears and take up the challenge of confronting scientific names (no longer should we call them Latin names...
