Swim Bladder: Would Being Stabbed be Beneficial to a Fish? March 5, 2023 10 min readDid you know that fishermen sometimes stab fish before releasing it back into the ocean? This practice in releasing fish,... Read More
Motor Learning and Dendritic Spines: How Learning Persists to Form Memories February 22, 2023 5 min readDo you remember the first time you rode a bike? For many, tightly grasping the handlebars and swerving from side... Read More
3D Drug Testing: Organ-on-a-Chip February 15, 2023 8 min readCulturing organ tissue to study the cell is a foundational technique for testing drug toxicity and efficacy. Present in vivo... Read More
Into the Colorful World of Fluorescence: An Introduction to Biosensors February 10, 2023 6 min read What if I told you that this colorful plate depicting a tropical landscape with ocean waves and a setting... Read More
Food for Thought: An Analysis of Food Modification for Commodity and for Necessity February 8, 2023 8 min readIntroduction: When one thinks of food modification, stories from the last decade about food that is abnormally large or long... Read More
Microplastics: The Blood’s Tiny yet Cruel Invaders February 6, 2023 5 min read When we think of plastic in relation to the environment, heart-wrenching images of polluted seas, dolphins trapped in plastic... Read More
A Deadline for Social Exploration February 5, 2023 6 min readWith the current COVID-19 pandemic, children experience less social interaction than possibly ever before. Ideally, they would continuously learn and... Read More
The Hidden Wonders of the Bilingual Brain February 1, 2023 7 min readIntroduction Do you remember sitting in front of the television as a kid, listening to Dora the Explorer or Handy... Read More
Into the Mindset of Biology with Dr. Keefe Reuther January 30, 2023 3 min readDr. Keefe Reuther has been a lecturer at UC San Diego since 2009. In 2020, he became an assistant teaching... Read More