Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University have engineered a striking proof of concept. They were able to convert human skin cell nuclei into functional […]
Author Archives: Ethan Hoffmann
The Colonial Theory of Multicellular Life
German biologist Ernst Haeckel proposed the colonial theory of multicellular life in 1874. He suggested that ancestral metazoans or earlier animals originated from the symbiosis […]
Evolution to Multicellular Animal Life Due to Single Mutation
The evolution to multicellular animal life was a product of a biological phenomenon that happened 600 million years ago. A study published in the open-access […]
Ortho-K: Advantages and Disadvantages of Orthokeratology
Orthokeratology or Ortho-K is a non-surgical method for correcting refractive errors in vision like nearsightedness or myopia, astigmatism, and even farsightedness or hyperopia to a […]
Cat Study Reveals Potential Treatment for Long COVID
Long COVID is real. Tens of thousands of scientific publications have investigated its biological mechanisms and global prevalence. Other research has focused on describing its […]
Nobel-Winning Discovery: Explaining Peripheral Immune Tolerance
The separate but related research of Japanese immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi and American immunologists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell uncovered the complex mechanisms that enable the […]
Types of Cellular Respiration: Aerobic vs Anaerobic
Cellular respiration is a metabolic process that occurs inside the cells of an organism. It involves the production of energy through the conversion of biochemical […]
Explaining Diabetes Insipidus: Diabetes Is Not Always About Sugar
Many people immediately associate diabetes with sugar because they assume every form of the condition involves problems with glucose regulation. However, not all diabetes stems […]
What is CRISPR? How CRISPR Gene Editing Works?
Antonio Regalado, a senior editor for biomedicine for MIT Technology Review, wrote an article in 2014 that described CRISPR as the biggest biotech discovery of […]
Origins of Viruses: Hypotheses and Theories
There are two competing assumptions regarding the origins of viruses: either they evolved alongside primitive cells or early in the evolution of life, or they […]