Claire BenjaminSep 27, 20162 min readIn at the killIn the last decade, more than half of all forest elephants have been slaughtered for their market-precious ivory. Without action, this...
Claire BenjaminDec 18, 20152 min readUsing game theory to help prevent pregnancy disordersLife is a game. From the moment sperm fertilizes egg, you are either winning or losing. Using game theory--the study of competition and...
Claire Benjamin & Kathryn MetcalfDec 2, 20155 min readRuby Mendenhall: How stress gets under the skinDavid Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General, noted in his 2005 research that if health disparities were eliminated there would be...
Claire BenjaminNov 2, 20152 min readMonica Uddin: Transgenerational transmission of disordersIn 1994, extremist Hutus slaughtered an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the small east African country of Rwanda in the...
Claire BenjaminSep 1, 20152 min readDerek Wildman: Computing genomes for reproductive healthMore than 2 billion babies will be born over the next 35 years. As many as one in eight of these babies may be born prematurely, with...
Claire BenjaminApr 17, 20153 min readKlaus Schulten: Seeing with the quantum biology of visionKlaus Schulten drafts blueprints of life—not with a pen, but with a computer program that his group developed over the last two decades....
Claire BenjaminApr 15, 20153 min readMonkey droppings complement field observations, researchers reportIn South American rainforests, researchers can tell one saddle-back tamarin from another, but what’s more difficult, is to see what the...
Claire BenjaminMar 16, 20153 min readScientists find DNA is packaged like a yoyoTo pack two meters of DNA into a microscopic cell, the string of genetic information must be wound extremely carefully into chromosomes....