It’s not rocket science, it’s pocket science! These short articles highlight very recent discoveries and put them into perspective.
The busiest bee can make up to 40 flights a day, averaging 100 flowers each. This means a typical colony can pollinate 20 million flowers each day! Through this symbiotic relationship, flowers depend on bees and other insects for reproduction and the bees collect and feast on flower’s pollen and nectar. One of the earliest…
If you saw a hippo on campus, you would remember it. But, would you expect that seeing such a pachyderm roaming on a university would alter the expression of your DNA? A recent study found that rats placed in an environment that tested their memory had alterations to their DNA, or epigenetic changes. For a…
Non-damaging Techniques for Monitoring Cells Studying the interior of cells offers insight to the biochemical processes occurring. However, the process of collecting data involves bursting the cell open in a process called lysing that may also destroy important biochemical interactions. Researchers at Stanford University and the University of Michigan are developing technologies at the micro-…
Mapping RNA to DNA with MARGI Over the past decade, it has become much easier, quicker, and cheaper to sequence the human genome. Organizations, like 23&me, have even made it possible for anyone to understand about their genome and any downstream effects their genes have on their health. However, there is still a lot about…
This is the first article in the series Pocket Science. With it, I want to discuss the context and importance of recent research in shorter articles potentially with more visual media. I hope that this will help people be more interested with the research going on around the world and want to stay updated with…
Understanding the Gravity of a New Theory Both the motions of planets orbiting around the sun and a pencil rolling off the table onto the floor are described by the gravity. However, despite this phenomena being so easily recognized, why and how it happens is still very much up to debate. Theories of gravity have…
Cancer is one of the biggest threats to a long and healthy life, accounting for approximately one in four American deaths. It is a disease that is characterized by uncontrolled cell growth leading to tumors and shutting down of biological processes. These issues arise from mutations in the genome that accumulate over time and can…
