Audrey Moeller

March 11, 2024

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

By Audrey Moeller

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 syndrome, adenomyosis,...

April 24, 2023

Simple Dicho: Cual es la mejor forma de tomar Cafeína

By Audrey Moeller, Chiloé Spelius

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 Estados Unidos, 85% de la ...

May 5, 2022

Simply Stated: How Does Music Impact the Brain?

By Audrey Moeller

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 responsible for emotion, me...

January 27, 2022

Simply Stated: Food Fight? “Starving” the Cancer

By Audrey Moeller

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 growing.

December 5, 2021

Simply Stated: What Is the Best Form of Caffeine?

By Audrey Moeller

What should you be drinking to stay fueled and focused?

November 23, 2021

Simply Stated: What Are The Stages of Vaccine Development?

By Audrey Moeller

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 the vaccine develop...

November 23, 2021

UCSB Marine Science Institute Highlights Microbes as Key to Further Medical Discovery

By Audrey Moeller, Anaya Khan

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 sustainable method to contr...