Rachel Hester

University College London | UCL · Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment (GEE)

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the challenges that surround development of a vaccine against novel Coronaviruses. It is imperative to identify the issues faced by researchers during SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV vaccine trials in order to ensure the same challenges are not faced for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development. One of the major imp...

In clinical research, recruiting and retaining participants for trials is a well-known challenge. Such difficulties are further exacerbated when studies are being conducted in the context of a disease epidemic. Inadequate recruitment and retention of participants in clinical trials can lead to a reduction in study power, uncertainty regarding the e...

Allometry is the study of size and it's consequences. No other clade exhibit size variation like monitor lizards of the genus Varanus.

Looking at the socio-economic and ecological costs and benefits of one of the world's most infamous restoration projects in the Loess Plateau, China.

Biological characteristics and processes often scale with body size, and these allometric relationships are thought to be influenced by ecological and evolutionary mechanisms. Allometric equations are often employed to understand how respiratory parameters are conserved across a large range of body sizes, in order to meet metabolic and aerobic dema...