Health

People commonly make excuses for their shortcomings. For example, students who do poorly on exams are often quick to blame the unfairness of a test,…
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Primary immunodeficiencies (PID) are a heterogeneous group of disorders that disturb the host’s immunity, creating susceptibility to infections. PIDs are genetically diverse, with mutations in…
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Given the abundance of information on social media, society’s challenge lies not in the difficulty of accessing health information but in sieving out truths from…
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When we are behind someone who is speaking, we hear them less clearly, and it is more difficult to understand what they are saying. This…
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When Robert Merton (1910 – 2003) dissected the allegory that we all are “standing on the shoulders of giants” — based on a much older…
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Bedrooms are an important part of our homes, considering we spend around one-third of our life sleeping. Further, our sleep quality also influences our performance…
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The liver is one of the major organs involved in metabolic function because it performs the important function of converting excess carbohydrates and proteins into…
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Have you ever wondered if bacteria that infect us actively modify lipids found in the membrane that surround our cells, and if that actually determines…
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2D materials have almost completely renovated the outlook of material science. 2D materials are trending as a preferential choice in optoelectronics, energy storage, energy conversion,…
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In comparison to Henry Beecher’s much-cited paper, “The Powerful placebo,” of 1955 (1), Stewart Wolf’s paper, “The pharmacology  of placebos,” of 1959 (2) is today almost…
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Pharmacological selectivity remains a critical goal in medicine. Most drugs act on a number of molecular targets and are also delivered equally well to cells…
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