Jan 24, 2025
Viroids are some of the most unusual biological infectious agents because they consist of only very small circular RNA molecules. They are too small to encode proteins, yet they are resilient and cause disease in a variety of agriculturally important plants, including cannabis, the sixth largest cash crop in the...
Dec 2, 2024
Archaea are one of the three domains of life on earth, but these
organisms are much more mysterious and less understood than either
Bacteria or Eukaryotes.
Dr. Alex Bisson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Biology at Brandeis University. His laboratory studies Archaea,
primarily focusing on Haloarchaea....
Jul 11, 2024
Guinea worm infections have been plaguing mankind throughout recorded history. The Carter Center took the lead in the guinea worm eradication effort in the 1980’s, when there were over 3 million cases per year. Through concentrated effort, this disease is on the brink of extinction, with only 14 human cases...
May 8, 2024
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are threatening modern society by making antibiotics obsolete. Dr. Nizet is a Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Pediatrics at UCSD, as well as the faculty lead for the UCSD Collaborative to Halt Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes (CHARM). His laboratory studies how the human immune...
Mar 9, 2024
Houston, we definitely do NOT have a problem…with interviewing
Dr. Kate Rubins, NASA astronaut. Dr. Rubins is a virologist
who has spent over 300 days in space, performing experiments aboard
the International Space Station, where she was the first person to
sequence DNA in space.
We caught up with Dr. Rubins at the...