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  • Fluidity of Brain States: Unihemispheric Sleep and Its Ties to Consciousness

    Fluidity of Brain States: Unihemispheric Sleep and Its Ties to Consciousness

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

    January 1, 2025
  • Decoding Smell: The Future of Odor Mapping with AI and Molecular Chemistry

    Decoding Smell: The Future of Odor Mapping with AI and Molecular Chemistry

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

    January 1, 2025
  • A Double-Edged Sword: The Blood-Brain Barrier

    A Double-Edged Sword: The Blood-Brain Barrier

    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.

    January 1, 2025
  • Mother Tree Hypothesis: The Power of a Mother’s Love or Wishful Personification?

    Mother Tree Hypothesis: The Power of a Mother’s Love or Wishful Personification?

    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.

    January 1, 2025
  • From Giants to Jellyfish: The Evolution of Sleep Across Species

    From Giants to Jellyfish: The Evolution of Sleep Across Species

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

    January 1, 2025
  • Sniffing Out a Cure to Malaria

    Sniffing Out a Cure to Malaria

    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.

    January 1, 2025
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Protein Misfolding: AlphaFold’s Role in Cardiovascular Disease

    Unlocking the Secrets of Protein Misfolding: AlphaFold’s Role in Cardiovascular Disease

    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.

    January 1, 2025
  • Molecules in Motion: Molecular Mechanisms of Exercise’s Health Benefits

    Molecules in Motion: Molecular Mechanisms of Exercise’s Health Benefits

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

    January 1, 2025
  • Generational Starvation: The Link Between Ancestral Diets and Modern Disease

    Generational Starvation: The Link Between Ancestral Diets and Modern Disease

    Studies suggest that our bodies can fight stressors like famine across generations, even after they have long since disappeared.

    January 1, 2025
  • The Heart of an Ecosystem: Pollinator Species in the Face of Climate Change

    The Heart of an Ecosystem: Pollinator Species in the Face of Climate Change

    In the face of climate change, pollinator species play a key role in preventing extreme habitat or species loss; yet, the detrimental impacts of climate change might prevent them from preserving these natural ecosystems.

    January 1, 2025
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