Stem cells in Parkinson’s disease: progress and challenges
Image credit : Kruthika Sundaram Parkinson’s Disease is a neurodegenerative motor disorder, caused by the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons...
Caffeine reveals role of epigenetics in anti-fungal resistance
Image credit: Kruthika Sundaram Annually, an estimated 1 billion people suffer from critical fungal infections, with 1.6 million deaths. The...
Fake science: an infodemic in a pandemic
Image credit: Kruthika Sundaram The pandemic brought the world to a halt, allowing for focus on important issues such as...
How memory science can help us this semester
Image credit: Jan Vašek, Pixabay. With teaching taking place almost exclusively online this semester (if not the whole academic year),...
Targeted cancer drugs can distinguish between healthy and diseased cells
Image credit: Gundula Vogel, Pixabay Drug treatment for many diseases often balances the need for high enough drug levels to...
Sea otter decline accelerating effects of climate change
Sea otters. Image credit: Rick Derevan, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. In a new study published by the Bigelow Laboratory for...
Africa has eradicated wild polio
Image credit: Kruthika Sundaram There were massive challenges faced during the campaign to eradicate wild polio. To be truly effective,...
The colours of nature
Pigment-containing chromatophores create the vibrant red and blue hues on the skin of the Siamese fighting fish. When stressed or...
Secrets of the water bear
Hypsibius dujardini, a type of tardigrade, imaged with scanning electron microscopy. Image credit: Willow Gabriel, Goldstein Lab via Wikimedia, CC...