Biology

Vivian Negrón Ortiz was born and raised in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. She completed her undergraduate and Master’s in Biology from the… — Vivian Negrón Ortiz was born and raised in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. She completed her undergraduate and Master’s in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, with a concentration in Plant Ecology. For her Master’s thesis, she studied a native cycad, Zamia erosa, its life-history stages, including seed germination…

By Sayantan Dutta (JB Scholar 2013) — By Sayantanduttabankura (JB Scholar 2013) We can think of living organisms such as human beings as complex machines that are designed to do multiple jobs such as walking down the street, watching their favorite movie or adding the prices of things in a grocery shop. The basic building blocks of…

How can the brain guess or predict what it does not already know? How can the brain update anything if it is was not picked up and stored… — How can the brain guess or predict what it does not already know? How can the brain update anything if it is was not picked up and stored? How can the brain store various forms of senses {internal and external}, if there is no uniformity of storage? The overlooked question…

A molecule used to study a specific cellular compartment may also act elsewhere in the cell. — Animal and plant cells synthesize a significant fraction of their proteins on a structure known as the endoplasmic reticulum. Researchers often use the molecule dithiothreitol to specifically target this compartment and learn more about its role. The toxin works by disturbing the complex chemical environment present in the reticulum, which…

Researchers recently analyzed rocks from the Persian Gulf near Oman in an effort to understand just where microorganisms called methanogens… — While space rocks are great for gathering all kinds of data about our solar system, they are also rather difficult to get your hands on. Sure, tons of space matter enters our atmosphere every day, but most of it burns up before it hits the ground, and if it doesn’t…

What is the Microbiome? — What is the Microbiome? A microbiome is a community of microbial organisms living in a given environment. In the gut ( Gut Microbiome), the community consists of a mixture of microbes that play important roles in multiple biological processes such as digestion, immunity, mental health, and other aspects of well-being. Similarly, unique microbiomes are…