The Thyroid Wants What it Wants
In 2007, the World Health Organization estimated that almost 2 billion people worldwide were not getting enough iodine in their diet. This iodine deficiency has damaging physical and economic consequences on...
Humanized Mice Models for Studying Hepatitis C
Thanks to vaccines, we’ve been able to reduce the global impact of measles, smallpox, and other infectious diseases. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared smallpox eradicated in 1980 after a global...
The Brain on Writer’s Block
It always happens at the worst times; the flow of words across the page suddenly halts as inspiration disappears. This irritating occurrence, known as writer's block, is defined by Merriam Webster as “a...
Our Sixth Sense
If you focus on the chair that you’re sitting on, you can consciously feel the stiffness of its surface, the way your legs are positioned, and maybe the way your fingers are hovered over the mouse or...