Archive: 2021

A new type of ultrawhite paint could help keep buildings cooler and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

An international team of researchers sequenced the microbes from dental scrapings of Neanderthals to understand more about their diet.

The DNA from children of Chernobyl survivors has been sequenced and does not show higher levels of mutations than other children.

Jasmin Joseph-Chazan is a second-year PhD student in the Immunology department at Harvard University. You can find her on Twitter as @chazanjasmin. Isabella Fraschilla is a Ph.D. student in the Immunology Program at Harvard Medical School. She is…

by Isabella Fraschilla Gertrude Elion Despite never receiving a PhD, Gertrude Elion was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine. She shared this prize with Sir James Black and her mentor George Hitchings for revolutionizing pharmacology by…

Transplantation of symbiotic bacteria to heat-sensitive corals helps protect them against bleaching, but many questions remain.

by Hannah Smithfigures by Xiaomeng Han If you ask any aging researcher, “What is the easiest way to make an animal in the lab live longer,” they will likely say “change what, or how much, they eat.” However, new research shows that it’s not just the…

by Edward Chenfigures by Jovana Andrejevic On a sunny, nondescript Hawaiian day, a Vibrio fischeri bacterium arises the same as on most other nondescript days: homeless. It hurries along on a ride to work. No, not by car. Not onboard a trolley either.…

How do #bacteria move? New #CryoEM study reveals small details of the flagellum—a massive motor #protein that drives bacterial movement.

Tamina Kienka is a third year student in the MD-PhD program at Harvard University. Jovana Andrejevic is a fifth-year Applied Physics Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Cover image by Gerd Altmann…