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...
Jan 13, 2024
Dr. Hyun Jung Kim, an Assistant Professor at Cleveland Clinic
specializes in coaxing human cultured cells to differentiate and
form tissues resembling the gastrointestinal tract, in order to
study microbe-GI interactions.
Dr. Kim discusses his surprising discovery of how common
immortalized cultured cells can...