Cystic Fibrosis and Your Genes
Disease alters lives in permanent and often heartbreaking ways. Most people have a story about how they have been affected by disease, either firsthand, through a family member, or looking […]
Category Archives: Medicine
Building Strength from the “Floor” Up
Better posture. Better sex. Better poop? If these happen to be part of your New Year’s resolutions (and if they aren’t, they should be), did you realize that working on […]
Algal Nutraceuticals: When Seaweed takes the lead!
Algae happen to be one of the most important organisms on our planet, producing about 70-80% of the oxygen we breathe. They are mostly aquatic photosynthetic organisms which grow in […]
Battle of the sexes… for evidence-based healthcare
Ladies, how many times have you rolled your eyes while your male friend languishes on the couch, suffering from a serious case of the “man flu” while the rest of […]
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest (or youngest) of them all?
Have you ever been scared of grey hair, skin wrinkles, baldness, or even worse, dementia? Voltaire once remarked, “What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is […]
One Health: Leveraging the connection between humans, animals, and the environment
Don't forget!! One Health Day is coming!! https://t.co/dUmFU7SPOt pic.twitter.com/FWLmKg1taO — OneHealth Commission (@OneHealthCom) October 12, 2018 What is One Health? One Health is an approach that acknowledges the interactions between […]
Raising the Dead: The Science of Frankenstein
It’s that time of year again. The weather is starting to get a little cooler, the leaves are changing color, and flannel shirts are now socially acceptable to wear. It […]
Redeeming Typhoid Mary
Typhoid Mary – the woman still infamous in our culture for wantonly spreading typhoid fever in the early 1900’s. Newspapers of the time painted her as a villain. However, Mary […]
The Biology of Mental Illness
There is a mental health crisis in the STEM graduate community. In this series, “Mental Wellness,” we will highlight not only the mental state of graduate students all over the […]
The Science of Emotions
We’ve all experienced it – the feeling of having your heart broken by someone you love or experiencing pure rage at someone cutting you off in rush hour traffic. But […]
