A head-scratching set of symptoms. A boy who may be in grave danger. Can researchers solve this medical mystery before it’s too late? Xander Auld was not a fussy baby. He slept well, at least for an infant. He didn’t get sick often. And on those few occasions when he did, he didn’t carry […]
DNA
A Cut Above
When Dr. Gaurav Varshney arrived at OMRF in late 2016, the first things he purchased for his new research program were fish tanks. Lots of them. During a seven-year post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Varshney developed an expertise in studying developmental biology in paperclip-sized aquatic creatures known as zebrafish. […]
Talk About a Revolution
Putting a man on the moon was a pretty big deal. Ditto for splitting the atom. But in the eyes of biologists, both of these scientific milestones pale in comparison to a more recent landmark: the sequencing of the human genome. Scientists first produced a complete map of the genome (the technical term for all […]
Next of Kin
It turns out I have a lot more in common with a banana than I first thought. No, I don’t have yellow skin. I don’t bruise easily. And nobody waits until I am over-ripe to bake me into delicious bread. But under my skin, inside it even, I share one very important thing with bananas: […]
