Image courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory (Wikimedia Commons). While the anthropogenic element of climate change remains a hotly politicized topic and the crisis itself becomes ever more dire, a coalition of scientists spanning a range of disciplines and institutions report
Image courtesy of Flickr. With a wide range of symptoms and varying degrees of severity, COVID-19 can be epidemiologically difficult to track. The fact that potentially infected individuals with mild or no symptoms are often not tested can lead to
Image courtesy of Max Pixel. As the COVID-19 pandemic worsens in many countries, scientists are continuing to look for new methods of treating the respiratory illness. In a study published in Cell Reports, researchers at the Academia Sinica, in Taipei,
Image courtesy of Flickr. While scientists have tirelessly worked to understand SARS-CoV-2’s mechanism of infection and pathogenesis, much is still unknown. To design an effective treatment or vaccine, researchers must both understand the mechanism by which a pathogen invades a
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In a study published in Nature Medicine, scientists at Stanford used single cell RNA sequencing to study changes in RNA expression levels in blood cells in control and COVID-19 patients. The immune system is made
Image courtesy of Audrey Steinkamp. Imagine mindlessly digging into the ground and suddenly finding a fossil of a never-before-seen species. For some, such an experience is merely a dream, but for Javier Luque, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale’s Department of
Photo courtesy of Ellie Gabriel Our archaeological record of evolution is dotted with a few key events, such as life’s emergence from water to land and the emergence of functional wings on birds. However, one of the most fundamental evolutionary
You have most likely seen them before: surfaces such as coatings on medical devices that claim to have anti-bacterial properties, killing germs that land on them. Current methods for creating anti-bacterial surface involve the use of either transition metals, such
When we take a drug, it flows through our bloodstream before entering the cells in our bodies–where the action happens. Most drugs that are currently used are small organic molecules that perform specific functions according to their chemical composition and
Seeing, hearing, or feeling things that aren’t there; mistrusting others for no reason; or thinking that you’re someone other than yourself: these can be some of the debilitating symptoms of psychosis. In certain cases, schizophrenic patients can become psychotic, but
