Our Endogenous Retroviruses, Ourselves: The Life And Legacy Of Dr. Anna Marie Skalka
In 1970, everybody knew, or believed they did, how the flow of genetic information in a cell works. The Central Dogma of genetics dictated that DNA is transcr...
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“Can You Please Call Us Back”… Why I’m Glad I Forced Myself To Do A Mammogram In The Time Of COVID
By Cheryl Laughlin - 2020 had a certain symmetry built into it. By January 2, 2020, I was fleeing the soul-suck of a demeaning job for a soul-pump of a bright ...
Girl Coded App For Best Friend With Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Inspires Creation Of True Hero Hospital Doll
At 18 months old, Grace O’Malley was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2 (SMA2), a disease that affects "the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord, ta...
Candid Conversation With Jen Haller, The First Person To Receive Injection Of Trial Coronavirus Vaccine
On Monday, March 16, in a monumental act of courage and selflessness, Jen Haller, age 43, became the first person to receive the first-ever injection of an inv...
Stomping Stigmas: My Real Talk On Malignant Divorce, An Opioid Addicted Child, And Depression
By Timna Zucker - It’s been awhile. A long while…since I have been me. Since I have been writing. Much has gone on…most of which you would not believe if I tol...
Nkeiruka Obi, Banker Turned Champion Of Children With Clefts And Their Mothers, On How We Can All Be Humanitarians
By Nkeiruka Obi - Here’s the story of a woman you should know: Konate Diomande Siami, a mother from Côte d’Ivoire in Africa who gave birth to five children, th...
Period. End Of Sentence. The Menstruation Taboo-Busting Documentary Short That Just Won The Oscar
"When a girl gets her period in the United States, she may miss a class. When a girl gets her period in a developing country, she may never go to school again....
“Ask Dr. Ruth”… A New Documentary Chronicling The Life Of America’s Most Famous Sex Therapist
When we think of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, we are reminded of late nights, huddled up to the radio, listening and learning things about sex we’d never hear in healt...
Real Talk With Astronaut Abby: How Women Deal With Their Periods In Space
In 1983, as Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, was preparing for her history-making flight aboard the space shuttle Challenger, engineers as...