CURRENT RESEARCH

Faculty Editor: Professor Jeffrey DaCosta Bacteria are unicellular microorganisms that differ from eukaryotic organisms like plants and animals by a characteristic lack of membrane-bound organelles such...

Faculty Editor: Professor Jeffrey DaCosta Most cells require oxygen in order to properly perform aerobic cellular respiration, where glucose and oxygen are reacted to produce ATP through an intermediate...

     For centuries, it was philosophers who shaped our early understanding of what it meant to have a consciousness — to consider yourself as separate from your environment. By the end of the 18th century, this...

Chronic lower respiratory disease, which encompasses conditions such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma, ranks just behind heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death in the U...

     Currently more than the one-third of the world’s population is either obese or overweight. Obesity has rapidly become one of the largest global epidemics as it puts the individual at high risk for many lif...

Imagine living a life you couldn’t remember. Experience would be held hostage to the moment; constantly disappearing and reappearing as a new scene. The knowable world would stretch no farther than your percept...

       Most everyone knows about proteins, that product loved by bodybuilders and steak lovers alike. But how are they made? Ribosomes are the tiny factories responsible for churning out each and every protein ...