15th December 2018 - The Glasgow Guardian



Illegal? No, not in China

15th December 2018

Jamie Quinn Science & Tech Editor If this experiment actually works, if the twins have no complications, gene-editing could be widely used sooner than we previously though The recent news from China of a genetically altered pair of twins is frightening. He Jiankui, from the Southern University of Science and Technology of China, genetically altered ...


GUBC bears all for Beatson

15th December 2018

  Angus Robson Writer The Glasgow University Boat Club are back for another year of bearing all in the name of charity. We started the annual men’s and women’s naked calendars three years ago and it’s been going from strength to strength each year. We row in Scotland where the winters are long, dark and ...


Glasgow to become Scotland’s first HIV Fast Track City

15th December 2018

Isabel Thomas News Editor This comes alongside news that Scotland exceeded international HIV targets Glasgow City Council has agreed to sign up Glasgow to the Fast Track Cities initiative. This is a global partnership which aims to cut the rates of new HIV infection in the city and eliminate the stigma associated with the disease. ...


43,000 in Scotland became homeless in the last year

15th December 2018

  Isabel Thomas News Editor The new report revealed that people lost their home every 18 minutes in Scotland last year Shelter’s annual report has revealed that around 43,000 people became homeless in Scotland in the last year with homelessness applications rising for the first time in nine years. For the whole of Britain, the ...