2024-09-27 | Luís Oliveira What If a Cell Was a City #2 – Energy and Trash It’s been almost a year since we (re)launched Science as We Know It. Our first post was a small imagination exercise where we pretended …Stem Cells 0 Comments
2024-07-27 | Luís Oliveira Insulin – A Sweet Discovery Today’s post is gonna have a sweet flavor. Because 103 years ago, on July 27th, a huge step in the treatment of diabetes was …Stem Cells 3 Comments
2024-06-14 | Luís Oliveira Blood – It’s as easy as AB(O)C Today, on the 14th of June, is World Blood Donor Day. It has been promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) over the last …Immune SystemNobel Prizes 2 Comments
2024-04-29 | Luís Oliveira DNA – The Four Letters of Life: A, T, C and G Last week, on the 25th of April, the commemoration of the DNA Day took place. Celebrated on this day, the date when, in 1953, …Stem Cells 2 Comments
2024-02-14 | Luís Oliveira But That’s Not The Shape of My Heart (no, not the Sting’s song) Ah… Valentine’s Day. Love is in the air? Quoting the character Sheldon Cooper from the sitcom The Big Bang …Anatomy 4 Comments
2024-02-08 | Luís Oliveira When Science Goes Wrong Ah, the wonders of pursuing knowledge… The ambition of achieving more and more… We might be led to think that scientific progress is a …Stem Cells 4 Comments
2023-11-08 | Luís Oliveira What If a Cell Was a City? – The Industry of Protein Production Dear reader, I will ask you right now to imagine the voice of your favorite teacher saying: A cell is the smallest unit of …Cell Biology 3 Comments
2023-09-15 | Luís Oliveira ‘Science as We Know It’ Is (Back) Online! And what can be a better way to (re)start this blog than by saying: Let there be light A quote from the Book of …Science as We Know It 0 Comments