No System is Perfect No system is perfect. Just as malfunctions in manufacturing yield defective products, the intricate machinery within cells is susceptible to errors that can trigger system-wide failures. In the cellular context, one... 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
Introduction A 2023 survey from the National Center For Drug Abuse Statistics reported almost one million deaths from substance abuse overdose since the year 2000, with opioids involved in at least 7 out of 10... Read More
(Abstract/intro paragraphs) Communication is an incredibly important subject for biologists that study animal behavior, as it reveals key interactions between organisms and their environments. The way an animal communicates has implications in survival, mating, learning,... Read More
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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