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Stem cells’ role in better understanding schizophrenia

Parmin Sedigh is a 16-year-old who is passionate about stem cells, developmental biology, and science communication. She shares her love for the field by writing easy-to-understand articles on Medium and creating YouTube videos. She’s also the Director of Writing at...

Right Turn: Exciting progress in treating Cystic Fibrosis

I am going to take a guess that the teen romance movie Five Feet Apart, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse, introduced many people to cystic fibrosis (CF). Certainly that was the case for my teenage daughter. I learned about CF through television ads, “back...

An interview with bioengineering pioneer Kevin Healy

In the fourth in her series on “What drives research in the field of biomaterials?” blogger Hamideh Emrani interviews Professor Kevin E. Healy at the University of California, Berkeley. You can catch up on Hamideh’s earlier interviews here. I met Professor Kevin Healy...

Right Turn: Back to school and being brilliant

. It’s September. I can almost hear the school bells ringing. I can definitely feel excitement in the air. For many, back to school isn’t something to dread: just the opposite; it’s something to get excited about. Tests and homework and waking up early aren’t much...