Science, Translated

It’s nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and if you don’t feel confused – well, you haven’t been paying attention. For the better part of a year now, our world has been trying its best to understand the

Figure 1. SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins inhibit the type I interferon (IFN) signaling pathway. Interferons are responsible for interfering with viral replication and inducing an antiviral state, or immune response, within the host. During viral infection, specific transcription factors, such as NF-kB, stimulate interferons to initiate an immune response. A transcription

I was scrolling through Twitter and came across a tweet, where a Black woman mentioned that her mother had COVID-19. When they checked with a doctor, they informed her mother to go to the ER if her lips turned blue. However, even if her lips were to turn blue, it

Have you ever changed a flat tire? It’s often as straightforward as replacing the flat with a new spare. You can fix pretty much all simple mechanical and biomedical issues like this. If you need an organ, you find a donor match. If you need an immunity, you get a

Even though it is said that the opioid crisis started in the 1990s, overdose mortality rates started increasing in 1979. This was the result of American economic policies in the 1970s that placed capitalistic gain above human well-being.  In a new study published by Frontiers in Public Health, the opioid