This article was originally published in our Spring 2021 print issue. In the mid 1880s, Austrian pediatrician Theodor Escherich discovered the gut flora, noting the impact of Escherichia coli on children’s diarrheal health—a discovery that would forever shape our understanding of human disease and the
This article was originally published in our Spring 2021 print issue. Women have mainly been excluded from studies in pharmacology. This manifests in the exclusion of subject sex in the data parameters/summary and lack of separate analyses between male and female data. Possible dangers of
This article was originally published in our Spring 2021 print issue. Today, there are several elite athletes who successfully compete and win while eating a plant-based diet. From tennis player Venus Williams to basketball player Kyrie Irving to ultramarathoner Scott Jurek, athletes who compete at
Biodiversity loss may seem like an abstract issue in a biology textbook, but it has real consequences for human health.
Imagine a world in which humans could create anything they wanted. From robotic human automation to geoengineering capabilities, technology and science is now bringing the world closer to these possibilities than ever before.
Think back to the last time you had a salad. You probably had a bowl of lettuce; some spinach thrown in there along with some of your common market veggies like shredded carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers; and topped off with crunchy croutons, crispy chicken strips, and
In May 2016, the Department of Defense announced the discovery of the first MCR-1 gene found in E. coli bacteria cultured from a human in the United States. A woman in Pennsylvania with a urinary tract infection tested positive for the gene, which had not