Three Seriously Scary Superbugs 

Antibiotic resistance is one of the world’s most urgent public health problems. In 2019 an estimated 4.95 million people died from illnesses involving antibiotic-resistant bacteria and fungi. (In comparison that year 1.51 million individuals died from malaria and HIV/AIDS.) Resistance…

What’s in a Name? C. elegans Edition

The famed model organism Caenorhabditis elegans has quite a few feathers in its cap. It was the first multicellular organism to have its genome sequenced and the only organism to have its entire neuron wiring (connectome) mapped. Moreover, C. elegans research has…

From Neanderthal to the Nobel Prize: A Paleogenetic Story

Each year five Nobel prizes are awarded in physiology/medicine, chemistry, physics, literature, and peace to “those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to society”. Winners of the Nobel prize in medicine or physiology have transformed how…