Collaborations

Collaborations October 12, 2022

Building a global network of disease detectives

In September of 2008, a young woman living in a suburb of Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, was stricken by a mysterious illness driven by an unknown virus. As headache, fever, and body aches gave way to more frightening symptoms including seizures and facial ...

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Collaborations September 19, 2022

An ocean of possibilities

Biomedical research has long focused on certain model organisms, such as the mouse, fruit fly, and nematode worm C. elegans, partly because they’re easy to work with and partly because of their relevance to human biology. But the ocean is full of organisms ...

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Collaborations August 24, 2022

From bedside to bench: Teaching doctors to be scientists too

As a pediatric cardiologist, Tahmina Samad really wanted to help her patients, but sometimes she felt stymied. Trying to treat children with heart problems, but having no idea which patients would develop heart failure and which would not, was frustrating and ...

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Collaborations August 19, 2022

Growing old: Does cell size trigger cellular aging?

The relative sizes of various cell types are among their most obvious differences, but how cells regulate their size while growing and dividing has been a subject of deep interest since the dawn of cell biology. This question also has clinical implications: ...

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