top of page
ALL POSTS


From ATP to MRI: Mildred Cohn's Pioneering Work in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
ATP is the stuff of life. Without it, cell communication shuts down, muscles freeze, and anything requiring ready energy (which is to...

Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 12
Â
Â


Capping the Chromosome: Elizabeth Blackburn and the Discovery of Telomerase
Telomerase is one of those enzymes which just won’t let you come to a settled opinion. When it runs wild, it promotes cancer. But it...

Dale DeBakcsy
Nov 26, 2023
Â
Â


Steering the Future of Women in Science: The Institutional Wizardry of Microbiologist Rita Colwell.
One of the exciting and daunting things about doing science in the Twenty-First century is the sheer number of competencies it demands. ...

Dale DeBakcsy
Nov 23, 2023
Â
Â


Making the Gradient: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and the Mysteries of Embryo Development
How is it that, starting from a single fertilized egg, employing only mechanical processes, you can form a kangaroo, a housefly, or a...

Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 20, 2023
Â
Â


Gerty Radnitz Cori: Glycogen to Glucose, and Back Again
For a science teacher, perhaps the most dreaded question is "What Is Energy?" Sure, we have a standard answer - "The ability to do work"...

Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 7, 2023
Â
Â
bottom of page


