Danielle Ellis

1 week ago | medium.com | Danielle Ellis

Its a Thursday afternoon and I’m sitting in a nail salon, mentally preparing for the serenity I’ve carved out in the middle of a long workweek. The air smells like acetone and lavender lotion. A woman is seated across from me, feet soaking in a tub, her voice carrying over the ambient R&B playlist and the soft hum of dryers.

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Danielle Ellis

We talk a lot about stress, burnout, and the mental load — but one concept that still flies under the radar is mental bandwidth overload. It’s the slow leak of focus, energy, and emotional presence that happens when you’re juggling too many responsibilities, decisions, and distractions at once. For parents, it’s more than a buzzword. It’s a hidden drain on our health, joy, and ability to show up for ourselves and our families. The worst part? Most of us don’t even know it’s happening.

1 month ago | news-medical.net | Danielle Ellis

Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc.In this interview, Sir Professor Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., K.C.S.L, the 2025 Coulter Lecturer, discusses how he is addressing today’s medical challenges using future technology. Can you tell us about how you started your career in science? My career in science began when I attended Princeton University for college. I had enrolled as a chemical engineering student, though I initially knew little about the field.

Feb 24, 2025 | news-medical.net | Danielle Ellis

Watershed moments in science rarely arrive with fanfare. More often, they emerge quietly—tucked away in the unlikeliest places, like the DNA of bacteria—before rippling outward to reshape entire fields. CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is one such revolution. Initially a bacterial defense system against viruses, it has been repurposed into one of the most powerful tools in modern biology: a method for editing genes with unparalleled precision.

Feb 19, 2025 | news-medical.net | Danielle Ellis

On the eve of 2020, the world was rocked by news of an emerging epidemic. In the coming months, as scientists scrambled for answers, pandemonium swept like waves across the borders of six continents.1Five years later, we can tell the tale of using the tools of science, we were able to turn the tide on SARS-CoV-2 and, in the process, rewrite the playbook on pandemic preparedness.