Cassandra Willyard
The ‘weird, wild, wonderful, and downright unsettling’ ways researchers are using mini organs
Scientists are using organoids to screen drug candidates, grow viruses, build biocomputers, and much, much more ...
Bacteria that cleans sewage? Microbes have evolved to break down medications that we excrete
Many wastewater treatment plants mix wastewater and air in a tank to form an activated sludge, which helps bacteria break ...
Geroscience: Searching for compounds that could extend our lives
By addressing the root causes of aging, researchers hope to stave off the disability and diseases that can make old ...
When will needle-free COVID vaccines arrive in the US?
Vaccines delivered through the nose or mouth should help stop infection where it begins. But researchers are still working to ...
With Nobel Prize in hand, mRNA set to revolutionize next generation vaccines and therapeutics
The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine honored two scientists whose research into messenger RNA (mRNA) technology paved the way ...
Disentangling the links between diet, genes and dementia
Dementia, like most chronic diseases, is the result of a complex interplay of genes, lifestyle and environment that researchers don’t ...
‘No one wanted to touch it’: Why a Lyme disease vaccine has been so elusive
The first human Lyme vaccine was pulled off the market nearly twenty years ago. A new effort faces lingering suspicions ...
How many genes in the human genome? The debate rages on
[In 2000] geneticists were running a sweepstake on how many genes humans have, and wagers ranged from tens of thousands ...
To stop cancer, scientists seek to understand how tumors evolve
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. About six years ago, ...
Tiny petri dish ‘organoids’ aren’t perfect, but show big promise
It was an otherwise normal day in November when Madeline Lancaster realized that she had accidentally grown a brain. For ...
Researcher probes why viruses remain genetically stable for some time, then rapidly mutate
Unlike most kids, Katia Koelle’s first love was math, a passion she picked up from enthusiastic instructors. “One of my ...