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Meet Dr. Microbe

Your microbiome—the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites that live in your body—could save your life someday.
Medicine & Health
Susan Cu-Uvin MD looking into a microscope in a lab.

Can We Kill HIV?

Working on it—with tools ranging from microbicides to dating apps.
Medicine & Health
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The Aging Crisis

Can we get ready for a surge in the need for eldercare, before it’s too late?
Medicine & Health
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The Science of Aging

Brown scientists search for keys to living longer—and better.
Science & Tech
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The Skinny on Big Data

It may allow corporations to know more about you than you’d like—but it can also be a force for good.
Science & Tech
portrait of Adi Melamed '19 and Aaron Mayer '18

Hi-Tech Ethics

Can CS majors save the world? The founders of a student startup think so.
Science & Tech
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Reprogramming Mother Nature

Experiments with coding animal genes stand to teach us a lot about ourselves.
Science & Tech
Illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban

Speak, Memory

Why do we remember, why do we forget, and why can’t we forget when we want to?
Education
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Eyewitness History

First-person accounts are often ignored in official histories of global crises. Holocaust scholar and history professor Omer Bartov explains why that’s a mistake.
Science & Tech
Professor Scott Frickel

Buried Knowledge

“Undone science” refers to data that have been ignored while other research gets done. Partly in the name of racial justice, some Brown folks are working to bring that information to light.
Humanities & Culture
Illustration by Raymond Biesinger

Everything Old Is New Again

Technology and new questions bring long-studied archaeological sites to life.
Science & Tech
Illustration of doctors and medicine by Raymond Bresinger

Can We End Alzheimer’s?

Treatment, much less cure, has been elusive. Brown scientists are on the case.
Science & Tech
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The Latest on Distraction

The rise in ADHD diagnoses has researchers asking what’s behind it—and whether it's really such a bad thing
Medicine & Health
Illustration by Melinda Beck of a human with a diagram of female body around it

Beyond the Average White Guy

Experts are moving past biological sex to “precision medicine” that takes each individual patient—whatever their gender—into account.
Science & Tech
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What’s Fido Thinking?

Brown’s canine cognition lab is not just a walk in the park.
Medicine & Health
Illustration by Michela Buttignol of a woman with illustrated cells and a blood drop.

Patients Who Were “Never Prioritized”

Sickle cell, which primarily affects Black people, has been ignored for years. Researchers are coming up with better ways to treat it.
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