Claire Benjamin & Kathryn MetcalfDec 2, 20155 minRuby 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 minMonica 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 minDerek 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 minKlaus 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 BenjaminFeb 1, 20143 minMay Berenbaum: Ecologist by training, entomologist by tradeMay Berenbaum studies how insects eat plants. “Insects that eat crop plants cause, globally, billions of dollars worth of economic losses...
Claire BenjaminNov 2, 20134 minErik Sacks goes to RussiaMosquitoes plagued Erik Sacks as he trudged through swamps, marshes and the like in Eastern Russia. After three weeks abroad, he arrived...
Claire BenjaminJun 15, 20134 minMatt Wheeler: Modeling for successCreating animal models is one of the messier aspects of life-saving research, but it is a vital step in the approval process for new...