Simply Stated: What is endometriosis, and why is it so much more than bad periods?

March is Endometriosis Awareness Month, and there’s no better time to talk about this invisible but terrible disease. Endometriosis and all of its related chronic conditions like polycystic ovary sy...
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Simple Dicho: Cual es la mejor forma de tomar Cafeína

Con el acercamiento de los exámenes finales, la cafeína es la patrocinadora oficial de las largas noches de estudio.  Entonces, ¿Qué deberías beber para mantener la concentración? En los Estado...
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Simply Stated: How Does Music Impact the Brain?

Music activates nearly all of the brain’s various networks. Because of this, the act of listening to a song strengthens connections between many different parts of the brain, including areas respons...
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Simply Stated: Food Fight? “Starving” the Cancer

Diet accounts for 30-50% of environmentally caused cancers. With a normal balance of angiogenesis, your body can prevent blood vessels from ever reaching cancer cells, thereby preventing tumors from g...
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Simply Stated: What Is the Best Form of Caffeine?

What should you be drinking to stay fueled and focused?
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Simply Stated: What Are The Stages of Vaccine Development?

On November 2, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was approved for administration in an age-appropriate dosage for children aged 5-11. With this recent milestone, many of us have been wondering what...
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UCSB Marine Science Institute Highlights Microbes as Key to Further Medical Discovery

In early October, researchers Isabel J. Jones, Susanne H. Sokolow and Giulio A. De Leo from the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara explored the benefits of using natural enemies as a sustain...
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