Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Whether it is pizza or steak, pudding or cake, the taste, smell, and even the idea of something we love eating can unleash an intoxicating rush of pleasure. Some might compare it to a “high,”
Image courtesy of Florida Water Daily/Flickr. Amidst today’s climate crisis and turmoil, there have been many pushes for sustainable practices and renewable energy. Industrial development has led to increased transformation of freshwater into industrial wastewaters, calling for more sustainable practices,
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Aliens stink—or, at least, there is a strong chance they do. Researchers in Sara Seager’s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been looking into biosignature gases––volatile substances produced by life––as a potential
One of the most devastating diseases for rice farmers today is the rice blast disease, which creates a yield loss of approximately ten to thirty percent each year—enough rice crops to feed about sixty million people. This disease, caused by
Our understanding of development has been primarily derived from animal studies. Until recently, how our immune system develops have been largely unknown. However, this question is important to solve, as understanding human development has important implications in understanding childhood diseases,
To explain what we take for granted, that is one of the fundamental tenets of science. One such experience that is often accepted as true is the association between drug relapse and the prevalence of mood disorders. Dr. Nii Addy,
The visual system, as it turns out, may be the key to understanding brain development. Recently, a group of researchers in the Crair lab at Yale have utilized new research techniques, including wide-field calcium imaging allowing for comparison between multiple
Harnessing your own immune defenses and using them to kill tumor cells. This simple, yet revolutionary idea, is the premise of immunotherapy. When our body is not actively fighting an infection, the immune system is turned off using various mechanisms
Since heart disease is the leading cause of death in America, treatments like using drug-eluting stents to combat atherosclerosis—the narrowing of blood vessels due to plaque buildup—have become essential. However, bare metal stents, tubes inserted into blood vessels to help
A recent discovery made in Yale University’s Department of Radiology and Bioimaging could accelerate the development of Type-1 diabetes therapies. This group of Yale medical researchers, along with collaborators at Columbia University, have identified a ligand to aid in imaging
