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Introduction: The Current Issues with Medical Diagnoses Imagine experiencing excruciating symptoms for many years but receiving little to no medical support—not even a definitive diagnosis. This is a frustrating reality for many, especially those with rare diseases, where diagnoses can take anywhere from six months to two decades. A qualitative study, “Time to diagnosis for…

A Bacterial Ecosystem that Lives within You: Intro to the Gut Microbiome Right now, there are upwards of 100 trillion microbial cells living in your gut.1 For reference, the average human body contains only 30 trillion human cells, meaning gut bacteria outnumber your own cells roughly three to one.2 While that may sound alarming, these…

Unihemispheric sleep is a unique behavior in which half of an animal’s brain is awake while the other half is asleep.

New advances in artificial intelligence, combined with growing chemical knowledge, are uncovering a more accurate way to predict smells based on molecular structure.

In 2024, while the BBB still poses a threat to targeted drug therapies, translational scientists have found ways to harness the unique chemistry of the brain to design medicines capable of permeating the barrier.

The Mother Tree Hypothesis suggests that the largest, oldest trees — the Mother Trees — are the lifeblood of the forest, quietly ensuring the ecosystem’s survival through a network beneath our feet.

By mapping the evolutionary relationships across the tree of life, we can excavate the underpinnings of sleep across all animals.

Malaria is a public health concern of utmost importance, and a promising avenue for mitigating the public health threat presented by malaria may be investigating mosquito olfactory or smell.

The release of AlphaFold 1 in 2018 achieved the first significant breakthrough, but it was AlphaFold 2 in 2020 that revolutionized the field, predicting protein structures with a level of accuracy that was previously impossible.

Your body is reshaping itself: its organs, tissues, and cellular pathways are transformed in response to physical exercise.
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