PhD student biochemistry and biophysics. Texas A&M University
2020 and 2021 will be marked in history by the COVID-19 pandemic. As of late March, close to 3,000,000 people had died due to SARS-CoV-2. To put this number in perspective, the fatality of this virus mimics the death toll of the Thirty Years War back in 1618 and is already higher than the Vietnam…
If we thought 2020 and 2021 were rough, we can still make it worse: living dead fishes have arrived. The drug Prozac is being poured into the streams by ordinary people and is making some aquatic organisms behave like zombies. Prozac, commonly known as fluoxetine, is a very common antidepressant drug that is also used in treatment…
At this point, we all have seen the short TV show Chernobyl; especially after the meme went viral on Aggieland about the close resemblance of some buildings on west campus with the ones in Ukraine, that hosted the nuclear plant that exploded 34 years ago. After the event, an 18-mile exclusion zone was created in…
Past week NASA announced that the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) (a modified Boeing 747SP with a 106-inch diameter infrared telescope) detected water on the sunlit face of the moon, more specifically in Clavius Craters (biggest crater on moon’s southern hemisphere). Previously, missions such as Cassini and Chandrayaan-1, hypothesized the presence of either H2O…
If somebody told you that Venus could host life you would look at him stupefied. Specially after you learned that Venus surface can reach up to 900 degrees Fahrenheit, and its atmosphere is mostly made of sulfuric acid and carbon dioxide. However, with the aid of high tech telescopes we now know that there could…
This article was published in the blog of Texas A&M University.
We are all aware of the importance of keeping a healthy life style. Doing exercise and eating healthy are the basic pillars of well-being. There are many diets nowadays available to us, and they all share similar values, such as quality ingredients and reduced calorie intake. A new trend is arising on nutrition world, intermediate…
Would you be able to do your homework, assignments and other school related activities without having electricity? Probably not right? What if I told you that you have to launch a satellite worth $200 millions without having electric service? That just happened.
6 am in the morning and the alarm clock goes on. You gotta get to the field house by 6.30am for practice. You barely slept 5 hours because you stayed up late finishing the homework for organic chemistry, which you are still unsure if your answers are correct. After practice you have to go to…
This article was published in the Journal Biological Chemistry.