Archive of posts with category 'research'

Dr. Selena Gell: From Scientific Research to Teaching

During her time at Choate, Dr. Gell has taught Honors Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology. Dr. Gell has an extremely strong research background with five years of work as...

Discovery of Superelastic Properties in Mammalian Epithelial Cells

In October 2018, Nature published a study titled “Active superelasticity in three-dimensional epithelia of controlled shape”1 which provided evidence for the appearance of cell superelasticity in mammalian epithelial cells upon...

Stanford Researchers Identify Human Bone Stem Cells

In a study published on September 20, 2018, a team of researchers at the Stanford University of Medicine identified a multipotent human skeletal stem cell that gives rise to new...

Brain-on-a-Chip: Another One of the Organ-on-a-Chip Inventions

Bioengineering has rapidly evolved in the past decade, with novel technologies constantly introduced to study challenging subjects. A product of this era of rapid technological evolution, the “brain-on-a-chip” device was...

Pinpointing Possible Treatments for Spinal Cord Injuries

The spinal cord is one of the most important parts of the body—it is essentially a bundle of nerves that runs down the back and carries signals back and forth...

Puzzle in the Primes: Atiyah’s Attempt at the Riemann Hypothesis

Mathematics is constantly evolving under the eager minds of a vigorous and thriving research community. At the cornerstone of mathematics, particularly in number theory, are the prime numbers–natural numbers divisible...

Honey Bees: Prime Models For Memory Storage and Alzheimer’s

In an effort to further understand the long-term development of memory and memory impairment diseases, researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia recently used honeybees to uncover the impact...