Capturing the Flag: Winning the daily battles with science
Feeling beaten down, pecked upon and downtrodden by your social circle and workplace? You are not alone. Parakeets, like humans, self...
Strong fences keep trouble at bay: How the AMPK-GIV pathway maintains epithelial barriers.
We probably don’t need a moonshot to understand some human cancers. Occasionally, basic cell research provides amazing insights when...
Money Can’t Buy Happiness but Calculus Can Help
So much is written and so much is said about human happiness, from Shakespeare’s sonnets to the sweet indulgence of rich dark chocolate,...
Putting the Team first: Why Joe Maddon Wins and Principal Investigators Fail
As I have watched the past two seasons of Cubs Baseball, I’ve observed a few things about success and teamwork that academic biomedical...
Feline-phobia? Save your relationship today!
I am a feline-doting kind of girl. They kill rodents, purr to cheer me up and add to economy by requiring expensive dry cleaning of daily...
It's not just Brain Dead TV!
It’s not just Brain Dead Sci-fi comedy folks! Parasites, of Earth not alien origin, can influence behavior. In order to maintain host...
Phage vs TB: A Biblical Battle
The struggle against tuberculosis (TB) is a long uphill battle. We need serious therapeutic help right now. Some recent WHO statistics...
Hope and the Science of Baseball
A scientist or a Cubs fan is, by nature, an optimist. But, is there also a place in science for hope? If you are talking about the...
A Better Use for Science
Spies have secrets. Secrets they need to tell. Fortunately for the CIA, chemists and physicists are working overtime to meet their needs....
Cells actually like Trigonometry
One of our first childhood lessons is that fitting a square peg in a round hole doesn’t work. Shape matters. For cells, the shape of...