Danielle Gerhard, PhD

Building Cells from the Bottom Up

In pursuit of a deeper understanding of cellular life, biologists use patterns in data as a springboard for probing specific…

3 weeks ago

Deciphering the Unusual Pattern of Bird Flu Symptoms in Cows

In March 2024, the USDA confirmed that dairy cattle in Texas and Kansas had become infected with a highly pathogenic…

2 months ago

HIV Engages in Mimicry to Enter the Nucleus

Smuggling its genome into the nucleus is essential for HIV to infect its host, but entering the cell’s control center…

3 months ago

A Journey Into the Brain

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a cellular fortress that regulates what comes in and goes out of the brain. It…

3 months ago

All Roads Lead to Genome Editing

Shondra Pruett-Miller, a biochemist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, found her calling during her first year of graduate school…

5 months ago

Bugs as Drugs to Boost Cancer Therapy

In the 1890s, physician William Coley injected patients who had cancer with bacteria after learning about patients who experienced spontaneous…

6 months ago

Building Biomolecular Machines | TS Digest

William Shih, a biochemist at Harvard Medical School, explores ways to construct tiny structures out of DNA for biomedical applications.…

6 months ago

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