Scientific Rhodes

In a couple of my previous entries, I’ve talked about how inflammation damages tissues and how chronic inflammation becomes more common...

If you’ve kept up with the news, you may have heard that a recent breakthrough was made in the field of fusion energy; one that has the...

Being the most common cause of dementia, as well as being very poorly understood, Alzheimer’s disease is one of the scarier diseases out...

Much of my past writings have been about the immune system, given my education and the pandemic. Most of these discussions of the immune...

I’ve written before about what the future of Covid-19 will look like once the virus moves from being a global pandemic to an endemic...

At time of writing, Artemis 1 is scheduled to be launched on the 2nd of October. (fingers crossed for no further delays). The rocket will...

The concept of ‘doing your own research’ has become something of a meme during the pandemic for how it is basically a euphemism for...

As the news has the habit of constantly updating itself, a few of the stories from my previous posts have undergone developments that are...

Well, we have another one of these to talk about. With a new disease in the news, it’s an appropriate time to discuss monkeypox. I will...

As my final post in what has become a three-part series on nuclear energy, I thought I would talk about specific famous nuclear accidents...

If you haven’t read part 1 yet, I would encourage you to do so. This time, I will talk about how nuclear reactors work and give an...

With Chernobyl being in the news recently due to concerns surrounding radiation spikes following the invasion of Ukraine, it’s a good...

In a recent interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci (Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical...

The recent invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation is nothing short of a tragedy, particularly for the Ukrainian people, but also...

A question for researchers created by the pandemic is that of long covid. About 10% of Covid-19 patients, particularly those with severe...

Today, I’d like to give a brief, high-level overview of the genome, its parts, and how it works. Given how often I talk about genetics, I...

With recent news about the Covid-19 pandemic, I figured it was time again for a covid update post. Feel free to review my previous post...

I recently finished a couple of major projects and I am approaching my final exam period, so I needed an easier topic for this post. A...

We’ve discussed a few basic concepts in epidemiology before, such as R0 and predicting strains. We’ve also discussed climate change on a...

The word CRISPR has become more common in scientific circles in the past few years. It’s a revolutionary new technology with incredible...