When Blood Vessels Speak: How Lupus Turns the Body’s Gatekeepers into Active Messengers of Inflammation
You may imagine your vasculature as a vast and silent network of tubes, dutifully carrying blood, oxygen, and nutrients to every organ and tissue. These vessels seem purely mechanical, like plumbing h...
4 Mar 13min
From Hospitals to Households: How Decentralised Care Is Transforming Tuberculosis Treatment for Children
Tuberculosis remains one of the world’s oldest and most stubborn infectious diseases, yet the way health systems respond to it is often dogged by modern challenges. Clinics are overcrowded, families m...
26 Feb 15min
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Hidden Forces Behind Your Health Plan Loyalty
If you ask someone in the United States whether to reconsider their health insurance plan choices, they may sigh, roll their eyes, and offer a story about navigating a maze of deductibles, networks, a...
12 Feb 8min
Hidden Engineers: How Earthworms Could Help Us Weather a Changing Climate
If you were to observe a quiet Dutch pasture, you might not guess that one of the most important climate-resilience workers in the landscape is silently engineering the soil beneath the grass. However...
4 Feb 11min
Weaving Spirituality into Psychotherapy: How Stories Help Healing
As the practice of psychotherapy increasingly embraces the spiritual dimensions of the human experience, therapists are investigating new ways to weave faith and meaning into healing. Dr Suzanne Coyle...
30 Jan 9min
History Written in Base-Pairs: The Hidden Stories in African Pig Genomes
Africa is often described as a continent of extremes. Vast deserts give way to lush rainforests; humid coastlines sit beside high, cool plateaus; ancient savannas stretch for thousands of kilometers. ...
28 Jan 15min
Linking the Blood Chemistry of Metals with Adverse Human Health: New Tools Reveal an Invisible World
Researchers Maryam Doroudian and Jürgen Gailer from the University of Calgary explore what happens when red blood cells rupture and release a zinc-containing enzyme called carbonic anhydrase 1 into th...
23 Jan 12min
The Unexpected Symbols Driving Iran’s Environmental Movement
If you walk through the bustling streets of Tehran, you might first notice the traffic, the densely packed apartments, or young people weaving through the city on motorbikes. But if you look a little ...
22 Jan 8min
