The Brain and Cholesterol Portrait of the Niemann Pick’s Disease: The mothers’ chorus
Chapter 1- The hurricane: Bewilderment, fear, sleepless nights that never seemed to end. Words pounding in my head: neurodegeneration,...


Nocturnal Habits: The Unbearable Lightness of Sleeping
He opened his eyelids, yawned, stretched his body awake and smiled. Waking up in a tent with the first rays of daylight and a symphony of...


City swamps: a novel source of bioenergy?
In the old continent, bioenergy is omnipresent these days. It’s still not at the level it should be, yet progress has clearly been made....


Tracking RNAs: A glowing story of man-made fireflies
In between lab measurements, I found myself dazing off…“Above the polar circle in the vast alleys of Cellsland, the subjects had not yet...


Crystals: From rock candy to rock(et) science
We all have heard at one point that crystals have an organized arrangement of atoms at the molecular level. Such an arrangement...


The art of escaping one’s immune system: A portrait of the bug S. aureus
Humans have developed an intricate arrangement of immune defense processes that keep invasive germs at bay. Our defense guardians, aka...


From the lab to the stage: A less conventional PhD portrait
There is nothing like the bittersweet rollercoaster journey of a PhD training. Some may disagree, but the majority of us will acknowledge...


Freeing molecules from chemical cages
Cages may belong to zoos, but this is being challenged by new findings about intelligence other than our own. There is a push for the...


Ancient and contemporary consumption of propaganda
Manipulation of public opinion by employing unobjective words or speech has been a political tool since modern societies were born. If we...


Worlds beyond ours
In 1600, Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno believed in a universe filled with countless planets that supported life. He was burned alive...


Cocaine sensor: A potential on-the-go screening aid
One of the most lucrative business in the new world turns around cocaine. Because it is an expensive recreational drug with high demand...


Beating in the rhythm of a sync heart
At the size of an adult fist and the power to pump an average 7 thousand liters of blood every day continuously throughout its life span,...


Mushroom wonderland: A leap toward smart packaging materials
Protruding elegantly in the middle of green weeds stands Ganoderma lucidum. Its kidney-shaped umbrella cannot go unnoticed, especially in...


Esperluette & Marie Curie Alumni Association Collaboration
To all our supporters, Seasons have changed, green leaves have turned orange and then embraced a free fall while birds dance southward in...


Microbiome Management in Pregnancy - Conference on March 6-7th, 2019 in Hamilton
On Monday December 10th, the world celebrated International Human Rights Day. Regardless of race, language, religion and political...



