Unraveling the Genetic Code of Cape Honey Bees

Number of words: 393 Researchers from University of Sydney have been successful in identifying the single gene that determines how Cape honey bees reproduce without ever having sex. The study was published in Current Biology on Many 7, 2020 which solved the myth created over possibilities of virgin birth. Expressing happiness over the new discovery, … Read more

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Policy

Number of words: 1,375 Even as data science becomes ubiquitous, we still have a shortage of people who truly understand data. Yaneer Bar-Yam is a Professor and President of the New England Complex Systems Institute. He graduated from MIT and is an expert in complex systems. Throughout this pandemic, he has been meticulously analyzing COVID-19 … Read more

The Role of Proteins in Modern Medicine

Number of words: 311 A “drug,” in bare conceptual terms, is any substance that can produce an effect on the physiology of an animal. Drugs can be simple molecules; water and salt, under appropriate circumstances, can function as potent pharmacological agents. Or drugs can be complex, multifaceted chemicals— molecules derived from nature, such as penicillin, … Read more

The Intersection of Psychology and Stomach Health

Number of words: 858 For centuries, gastritis had rather vaguely been attributed to stress and neuroses. (In popular use, the term dyspeptic still refers to an irritable and fragile psychological state.) By extension, then, cancer of the stomach was cancer unleashed by neurotic stress, in essence a modern variant of the theory of clogged melancholia … Read more