Hannah Thomasy
Writer at Freelance
Assistant Editor at The Scientist
Freelance science writer. Words @NewScientist, @DiscoverMag, @atlasobscura, @undarkmag
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Jan 13, 2025 |
the-scientist.com | Hannah Thomasy
January first finds many people making New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier, exercise more, save money, or stop doomscrolling. All these actions can improve well-being in the long-term, but if sticking to your resolutions throughout January leaves your brain feeling like soup, you’re not alone. Humans have long understood that it’s hard to exert self-control for a prolonged period.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
the-scientist.com | Shelby Bradford |Danielle M. Gerhard |Laura Tran |Hannah Thomasy
Article A Sweeter Living Space Promoted Bacterial Survival in Flies Patients with increased blood sugar concentration often experience increased disease severity following infection.1 In 2015, Brian Lazzaro, a geneticist studying host-pathogen interactions at Cornell University, and his group demonstrated that lifetime high-sugar diets made flies more susceptible to Providencia rettgeri .2 “I was interested in looking into what were some of the physiological mechanisms that led to diet having...
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Dec 4, 2024 |
the-scientist.com | Hannah Thomasy
Although humans can produce as much as 1.5 liters of saliva every day, most people don’t give spit a second thought. But spit—and more specifically the proteins it contains—has an important yet incompletely understood relationship with pathogens and with the energy-rich biological molecules in food.
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Dec 2, 2024 |
the-scientist.com | Laura Tran |Shelby Bradford |Danielle M. Gerhard |Hannah Thomasy
ArticleProtein Makeover with Custom Amino AcidsProteins are built by mixing and matching amino acids, but researchers want to create new functions by adding noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs). However, this process often requires complex whole genome editing. This inspired Ahmed Badran, a chemical and synthetic biologist at the Scripps Research Institute, to develop an easier method for adding ncAAs to proteins.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
the-scientist.com | Hannah Thomasy |William Thomas
Transcriptomic studies of the shrew’s remarkably plastic brain could provide new insights into neurodegenerative diseases. As winter approaches, humans in the higher latitudes might beat the cold by snuggling up under a pile of blankets or booking a timeshare in sunny Florida. Similarly, some animals cope with seasonal changes by slowing their metabolisms to a crawl to drop into hibernation or undertaking long migrations to more hospitable climes.
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