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The Curious Zookeeper of Extraordinary Organisms
In his backyard in Atlanta,Saad Bhamla, professor of chemical and biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, observed the glassy sharpshooter with interest. The lightweight insect was urinating in droplets which it super-propelled into the distance. Later, a high-speed camera would reveal that the bead...
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The mRNA Nobelist
In 1997, at a University of Pennsylvania photocopier, molecular biologist Katalin Karikó met immunologist Drew Weismann — a chance encounter that would change her career, and medicine, forever. At 42, Karikó had made little headway with her radical idea: that messenger RNA, the fleeting molecule...
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Cat in the Agraharam
The wealth of contemporary Tamil literature has always been just out of reach for readers like me who speak the mother tongue well enough but tend to stumble over the printed word. But you don't need Tamil roots to appreciate this new collection of translated...
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Just Herself
“One of my formative experiences in Karachi happened when, as a 10-year-old, I would take my bicycle to the bike repair shop right outside our apartment compound,” the scientist recalls. “Rather than just repairing my bike for me, the man at the shop taught me...
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