[INTRO ♪] There’s certainly no shortage of advice out there about what you should do when you’re sick. And if you’ve ever asked your grandparents for their tried-and-true remedies, or you’ve been up at 2 AM Googling “how to cure a cold,” you might have stumbled upon this popular nugget of wisdom: You should feed
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Good morning John, so as you may have noticed, 3D movies are all the rage, and when I say rage, in some cases I mean actual, physical, literal RAGE. I mean really, isn’t there enough 3D in our lives already? Almost everything I have ever known has been 3-dimensional. Seeing a movie in 2D, that
I am a translator. I translate from biology into mathematics and vice versa. I write mathematical models which, in my case, are systems of differential equations, to describe biological mechanisms, such as cell growth. Essentially, it works like this. First, I identify the key elements that I believe may be driving behavior over time of
In February 1977, a 42 year old woman was admitted to the hospital with deep jaundice, shivers and hemolytic anemia – a type of anemia where her red blood cells were being destroyed faster than her body could make them. She went on to develop a “hepatic precomatose condition,” – a type of impairment of
A major focus of my lab is understanding the mechanical properties of biological materials. And that ranges from animal cells to plant cells and we’re particularly interested in understanding the cell nucleus which is where most of the genomic material, most of the DNA of the cells is contained So there are many cells that
cervical cancer is cancer of the cervix the lower part of the uterus that opens into the birth canal it is one of the most common types of cancer in women worldwide but also one of the most preventable thanks to early detection with Pap tests the cervix has two major cell types flat squamous
[♪ INTRO] Babies cry a lot. Which can be really irritating, but it’s normal. It’s the only way they can tell you they’re hungry. Or bored. Or tired. Or… you get the idea. But some babies do cry more than others. And when an otherwise healthy baby cries more than normal, they’re said to have
[♪ INTRO ] Being sick is the worst. Not only do you get the chills and a runny nose during the day, but your illness can chase you into your dreams as well. You might have experienced those bizarre and emotionally intense dreams some people have when their temperature skyrockets, AKA fever dreams. While lots
Have you ever experienced a moment in your life that was so painful and confusing, that all you wanted to do was learn as much as you could to make sense of it all? When I was 13, a close family friend who was like an uncle to me passed away from pancreatic cancer. When