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  • 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
  • Illuminating insights: Using Fractals to Model Lightning

    Illuminating insights: Using Fractals to Model Lightning

    Now, many parts of lightning’s trajectory that would previously have been modeled individually, a very complex and time-staking process, can be combined and simplified using the fractal properties that lightning bolts possess.

    January 1, 2025
  • Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants: A Sustainable Alternative to Bone Marrow Transplants

    Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants: A Sustainable Alternative to Bone Marrow Transplants

    Following the success of pioneering medical procedures, umbilical cord blood, which was once often discarded as medical waste, could serve as a potentially valuable therapeutic tool. Now, it has been integrated into treatment plans for several blood disorders, such as leukemia, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and genetic blood disorders.

    November 15, 2024
  • Tiny, Indestructible Creatures: Tardigrades In Healthcare

    Tiny, Indestructible Creatures: Tardigrades In Healthcare

    In an effort to combat the harmful repercussions of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, scientists have discovered the potential of a creature of microscopic origin with macroscopic capabilities: the tardigrade.

    November 11, 2024
  • Multilingualism: A Way to Gasconade

    Multilingualism: A Way to Gasconade

    Though the specific number of people who speak more than two languages is unknown, an estimated 60% of the world are multilingual—roughly six in ten people.Many scientists have speculated that the reason multilingual individuals rarely make errors when switching between languages is because of cognitive control mechanisms.

    November 11, 2024
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