Brood Parasitism: Nature’s Surprising Parenting Strategy Cover Image: (Source) Disney’s Tarzan and The Jungle Book have one thing in common: abandoned children being raised by wild animals. Tarzan grew up alongside apes and Mowgli with... Read More
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From Data to Babies: AI is Making IVF Stronger (Illustration by Catherine Xu) Introduction Facilitating a pregnancy in a laboratory was one of the most impactful medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. The remarkable discovery... Read More
Criminal Minds: The Neurological Blueprint of Psychopaths Image Source: Song Nguyen Introduction Everyone has unique thoughts, perceptions, and mental processing techniques, but for some, the neural pathways that code for mental processing are not as... Read More
Prologue Have you heard the story of Homer’s Achilles? Once hailed as the greatest mythical warrior in all of Ancient Greece, he now serves as a cautionary tale to protect one’s vulnerabilities. Achilles’ vulnerability was... Read More
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What happens if one day your cells start growing at a faster pace? You might tire faster on your morning run, notice a drop in the numbers on the weight scale, or even observe a... Read More
Introduction When we think of developmental biology, what comes to mind? Developmental biology, a constantly evolving field of study, largely focuses on processes involved in the reproduction, maturation, and differentiation of cells. Previous work in... Read More
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Transmitted by female biting anopheles mosquitoes carrying the plasmodium parasite,[1] malaria thrives in the heat. It kills over 600,000 people annually, and more than half of all malaria deaths occur in just four sub-Saharan African... Read More
Introduction When one is sick, the comforting mentality tends to be: “When I get better…” The focus shifts to improvement—the cough will abate, the fever will break, and eventually, the illness will become a... Read More
How to Taste With Your Arms: Chemotactile Receptors, from Biophysics to Evolution A shrimp pounding against the wall of its tank, as if it knows what is to come. In the opposite corner: an octopus,... Read More