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Close-up of female scientist hands with microscope. Credit: ljubaphoto.

What’s the Deal? Making Science Accessible.

Hi all! I’m Emily and I am thrilled to be joining the LIFE Apps blogging team.…


How Your Gut Microbiome Unlocks the High Fiber Diet

Investigation into the function and evolution of the human microbiome, our ‘old…


Side view of sporty woman running fast against stormy sky with lightning and tongues of flame.

Live Fast, Die Young: The Evolution of Aging

To take care of your health is to delay the inevitable biological deterioration…


Early age-related macular degeneration. Credit: Community Eye Health, Flickr.com.

Macular degeneration and things that go bump in the eye

My father is making us tea in his 70’s styled kitchen when I show him an…


A heads up on head injuries

On December 1, 2012 Jovan Belcher emptied nine bullets into his girlfriend…


Illuminated brain. Credit: ipopba.

Communicating The Only Way I Know How....With Science!

When I worked at the lab bench slicing paper-thin sections of a mouse brain or…