Survival of The Sickest

We’re living in extremely weird times. With everything going on around the world with the coronavirus, in addition to all the other crazy news we have gotten since the start of the new year, it seems like we’re really living in the twilight zone. Hospitals are flooded, most public spaces like gyms and restaurants areContinue reading “Survival of The Sickest”

The “Undertakers” of the Bee World

The death, undertaking, and burial process is something we don’t seem to think about too often, especially when it comes to animals (other than ourselves). One group of animals that have quite a particularly interesting undertaking process, as discussed in a recent Science article, are bees. A new study conducted by Wen Ping, an ecologistContinue reading “The “Undertakers” of the Bee World”

CRISPR Treatments Finally Being Used

Have you ever looked at yourself and said, “man, if only there was a way that I can go into my genome and change certain DNA sequences to rid myself of that unwanted trait of mine.” Well, if you have, you might be in luck! CRISPR, or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (I know,Continue reading “CRISPR Treatments Finally Being Used”

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