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Oops that’s a mistake.. No, that’s a new detox pathway!
It’s graduation season and for those folks who think grad school isn’t for them, take a look at this week’s guest who is one of the first to participate in the 4+1 Bioresource Research program in the...
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Go With The Flow
If you get the chance to meet Emily Khazan, you’ll probably learn a thing or two about damselflies. You can think of them as smaller versions of dragonflies whose wings can fold back Emily attempting...
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Fishing for Improvements
Movies have a way of portraying ecology as a battle between tree-hugging scientists and the large corporations that want to destroy the natural world. The companies are shown with their giant boats and...
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The hurdles for a college education are not the same for all students
The majority of college students today had the privilege of transitioning from high school to college in a year or less, making the transition to higher education easy. I think it’s safe to say our...
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Learn the past. Speak the present. Guide the future.
Lake Victoria, sitting just below the equator in eastern Africa, shared between the countries of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania is the second largest freshwater lake in the world. To put that into...
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Navigating Cultural Currents: Sharing Water in Central America
Between the Southeastern portion of the country of Costa Rica and Panama to the south runs the Sixaola River. For almost a hundred miles on its meandering path to the Caribbean the river forms the...
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Walk Like a Kinesin
To the naked eye, plants don’t move around a whole lot. Take a closer look, inside of a plant cell, and a whole new world is opened. From cytoplasmic streaming to mitosis (cellular division), a cell is...
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A Softer Side of Robots
Do me a favor: close your eyes for a few seconds and think of a robot, any robot, real or imaginary. Done? Good. Now, that robot you thought about, what did it look like? What did it do? What was it...
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Get out and Play with Friends!
As the Rio Olympics gets underway we are reminded just how far a human being can push their body to shave off ¼ second, or jump the extra inch; we tend to envision exercise for purely physical benefits...
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We Answer to the Nucleotide Chain Gang
This week on Inspiration Dissemination our featured guest is our very own Zhian Kamvar aka DJ CATGAG the co-host and co-founder of our weekly broadcast. Before his radio and phytopathological fame,...
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Can You Hear Me Now?
A mutation in the otoferlin gene causes inherited hearing impairment. The otoferlin gene codes for the massive otoferlin protein, which is in the part of the inner ear called the cochlea. Otoferlin is...
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Religion and Spirituality at Work
Most adults spend the majority of their time at the workplace and organizing their lives through or around their occupations. While work is often portrayed as not personal or political, social science...
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Paul does it all: Is there hope for the amphibian taxa?
Everyday there is a constant battle between healthy immune systems and parasites trying to harass our bodies. In the case of buffalos in South Africa they cannot simultaneously fight off a tuberculosis...
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Heat and oxygen exchange at the interface of ocean and atmosphere.
Jenessa aboard OSU’s vessel the R/V Oceanus during a cruise for a field work course. She is deploying a vertical microstructure profile attached to a large winch: fishing for the big one! As a...
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Safety is No Accident
It is no accident that traffic signs are painted with reflective paint to increase visibility at night. It is no accident that some pedestrian crossings in Corvallis are equipped with lighted signals...
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Heavy Digging
Mine Algae!!! When I think of mining, the first thing that comes to mind is the classic gold rush miners from the mid-1800s. Someone that looks a lot like Stinky Pete from Toy Story 2. I don’t mean to...
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A Big Punch at the Smallest Scale
How do you connect the dots between sunscreen, coatings on reading glasses, and medicine? Nanoparticles! More and more the potential uses of nanotechnology are moving forward. For example the use of...
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Mosquito soup in the Brazilian rainforest
Fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazonia meant continuously trying to outsmart their savviest opponents…ants! Deforestation in Brazil due to cultivation of monoculture crops, such as soybean, has profoundly...
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Birds to bacteria and kickstarting research boundaries
Did you know us humans have a background army of microbes that work to keep us healthy, turns out these microbial cells outnumber human cells 10 to 1 in a healthy human body! The human microbiome is...
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Blood Quantum: A Pass-fail Exam with No Questions
“What are you?” is a common question asked in the United States. Few people when asked say, “American,” simply because they might be of European descent. No matter how recently their ancestors migrated...
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