You won’t get infected with an antibiotic-resistant bug…or will you?
Antibiotic-resistant infections are the new ‘craze’. What does the Center for Disease Control have to say?
Author: Dominika Trzilova
Are some of us “immune” to genome editing?
Crispr-Cas9 seems like a promising system to treat human disease but what if humans are immune to it?
Biomimicry – Harnessing the Power of Nature
Have you ever marveled at a gecko climbing on glass? Or wondered why mosquito bites are painless unlike the injections we get at the doctor’s office? The natural world has developed some ingenious features during the ~3.8 billion years of its evolution. However, until quite…
Do Blood Sugar Levels Affect the Development of Sleeping Sickness?
You have probably never met anyone suffering from sleeping sickness, a potentially fatal condition. This is because the disease, also called African Trypanosomiasis, is only present in certain regions of sub-Saharan Africa. While the number of human cases has dropped to less than 3,000 in…