Saltman Quarterly

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

Introduction Kuru, or the laughing disease, was first discovered in the Fore people native to New Guinea. The Fore people upheld a tradition of funerary cannibalism, in which family members would eat the bodies of... Read More

Evolution drives biological change and has been the force to bring along numerous organismic additions since the origin of life. Thriving on evolution and growth, cancer is a disease which negatively impacts humans. Like all... Read More

Your food reserves are running low; you are beginning to doubt you will be able to feed your family in the upcoming week. Resources have been scarce for a while, but it became especially difficult... Read More

Light Therapy Perhaps you have a sign at your gym offering the use of red light therapy to complement your workouts, or maybe you have seen it offered at a clinic at your local mall.... Read More

“What is Life?” This title refers to 1944’s bestseller book, not the latest “10 Ways to Avoid an Existential Crisis” from Cosmopolitan, as the name would suggest. This book was written by Erwin Schrödinger as... Read More

When you hear the word “parasite,” what comes to your mind? With all the buzz around the recently revived “Alien” franchise, it’s easy to envision dangerous, otherworldly creatures like facehuggers, chestbursters, and more. Sensational as... Read More