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Swim Bladder: Would Being Stabbed be Beneficial to a Fish?

March 5, 2023 10 min read
Did you know that fishermen sometimes stab fish before releasing it back into the ocean? This practice in releasing fish, called venting, seems odd at first, but the reason lies behind the complexities of a... Read More

Motor Learning and Dendritic Spines: How Learning Persists to Form Memories

February 22, 2023 5 min read
Do you remember the first time you rode a bike? For many, tightly grasping the handlebars and swerving from side to side in a desperate attempt to stay in balance is but a distant memory.... Read More

3D Drug Testing: Organ-on-a-Chip

February 15, 2023 8 min read
Culturing organ tissue to study the cell is a foundational technique for testing drug toxicity and efficacy. Present in vivo methods, where experiments are performed on animals, are often limited by ethics, cost, low throughput... Read More

Right to Abort

February 13, 2023 9 min read
“My body, my choice”: A statement that demands autonomy over one of the only things that is truly ours in this world–our bodies. This very notion was challenged and struck by the law on June... Read More

When Cows Go Mad: An Overview of Prion Protein Diseases

December 10, 2021 8 min read
In 1732, a shepherd in Spain noticed a sheep compulsively scraping against a fence, a behavior that soon spread throughout the flock and left every sheep deceased. The infectious disease causing this symptom became known... Read More

How Dracula Deals With the Flu

November 9, 2021 7 min read
COVID-19, Ebola, MERS, and SARS are all deadly viruses in the limelight of contemporary research that all have one thing in common—they are hypothesized to have originated from bats. Such types of viral diseases passed... Read More

Building the Brain: Stem Cells and Brain Organoids

October 5, 2021 8 min read
Our brain is very complex–perhaps even more than you are aware of. The latest estimation of the number of neurons in a human brain is 86 billion. Each neuron can connect with around 1,000 other... Read More

In It For the Long Haul: Persisting COVID

May 17, 2021 13 min read
Like a prism of glass held up to light, our perception of the world around us is largely defined by the lens through which we look. The lens of COVID-19 is unprecedented in its ability... Read More

Petri Dish to Big Picture: How Microbes Inspire Creativity

June 5, 2020 5 min read
Since 2014, the American Society for Microbiology has hosted Agar Art, an annual competition accepting submissions by petri dish rather than canvas. Every year, scientists and artists together embark on a quest to create paintings... Read More

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