Biomedicine & Biotech

The Dutch are famous for windmills, impressive feats of geoengineering, and being tall and blonde. At a towering 183.8 cm (just over 6 feet tall), Dutch men are widely hailed as the tallest in the world.

A new Zika vaccine may be just around the corner, with incredibly promising results recently published in Nature Medicine.

23andMe, founded in 2006, is a personal genetics company with the mission to "help people access, understand and benefit from the human genome."

One in 10 people have a major depressive disorder (MDD) during their lives, which makes depression the most common mental illness. Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from depression.

Recently, I had the pleasure of traveling to Washington, D.C.

"Ew, what was that?" is perhaps the most common refrain uttered by people as they drive past roadkill. Most people find these carcasses repulsive, as they glide their cars carefully around the bloody remains.

Reputations are a funny thing. It takes years to build them but mere seconds to destroy them.

You might notice Dr. Norm Borlaug, Nobel Laureate and "Father of the Green Revolution" in our Founder's Circle.

The existence of human pheromones is hotly debated. Ask any woman who has lived in a college dorm and she is likely to tell you that they exist because the women synced their menstrual cycles when living together.

Scientific experiments require subjects - which are infrequently humans for many (obvious) reasons.