Terry Mulhern

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Associate Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne

There’s a reason we apologise to our livers after a big night, and it’s not pretty. Wes Mountain/The Conversation

August 2, 2018

Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation and Wes Mountain, The Conversation

What is it that makes us feel drunk when we drink? And why do we keep drinking if it can make us feel so terrible?

More than one in three people with Chinese, Japanese and Korean heritage flush when drinking alcohol. Marcella Cheng/The Conversation

December 27, 2017

Terry Mulhern, The University of Melbourne

Facial flushing when drinking alcohol is caused by an inherited deficiency in one of the enzymes involved in the breakdown of alcohol.