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Rosalyn Yalow - The Nobelist Who Believed Women Could Do It All

Medical diagnosis was revolutionized in the late 1950s when Dr. Rosalyn Yalow and her collaborator, Dr. Sol Berson, developed the radioimmunoassay technique [1] to measure minute amounts of hormones, enzymes, and other bodily substances.

Garden Grove Is Not East Palestine: Here's Why

Rebaccca Trager over at Chemistry Wor

ACSH Welcomes Dr. Katie Suleta

The Chaos Gate, Brain Hacking with Microbubbles, and Frankenstein Rewired

Much of our medical school education focuses on our underlying biochemistry, with rare exceptions, such as scattered discussions of orthopedics, where we consider biomechanics, forces, motion, and struct

The Wellness Salad Bar: Why Skipping the Hard Work is a Public Health Risk

Much of this book revolves around the idea that wellness trends and practices are often treated like a salad bar; you don’t have to take everything on offer, only the stuff you like.

The Haunting: Low-Frequency Sounds That Unsettle Us

Juno is a weather dog with the uncanny and unsettling ability (at least for her) to detect thunderstorms long before they arrive, even from 12 miles or more away.