Articles by

Maggie Chen

Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse

Fungi are an indispensable part of your microbiome, keeping the body’s host of microorganisms healthy as part...

Covid Can Boost Your Response to Flu Vaccines—if You’re a Man

While the whole blood transcriptomics was helpful, it only provided a general picture of what was going...

Why Do You Get Sick in the Winter? Blame Your Nose

To figure out what exactly was causing this antiviral capability, the scientists then incubated the vesicles with...

This Low-Cost Test for Hearing Loss Lives on a Smartphone

Inside the snug confines of the human ear lies a bony structure, curly and shaped like a...

The Spooky Science of How Undead Spores Reanimate

Here’s a spooky conundrum: Is a spore alive or dead?Gürol Süel, a biologist at the University of...

To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte

This was slow going. “We spent a lot of time, probably the first couple of years, really...

Randall Munroe Is Back to Answer Your Impossible Questions

I was first just reading about how MRIs have got really big magnets in them, and thinking:...

What If Cells Kept Receipts of Their Gene Expression?

They added the chemical that triggered the first gene (corresponding to barcode A) for 24 hours, followed...