Anxious to Evolve?
Anxiety and Stress in Human Evolution
“Exhausting amounts of work, financial pressures, and expectations to publish. Most of our readers will be familiar with these perpetual stressors of graduate school. But regardless of your career, you are likely to experience stress fairly often. The question is, when does stress become anxiety? Does anxiety serve a purpose in the evolution of our species? Finally, how is human anxiety shaped by a rapidly changing world?”
Meredith Bennett
“One of the oldest questions in biology is the origin of genetic variation. When an organism seems to have adapted to a challenge it faces, did the useful trait arise as a response to this challenge, or was it already present, by chance, before the challenge appeared?”
Nishant Panicker
Keeping the Beat Going:
New High-Tech Medicine Against Heart Disease
“It shouldn’t come as a surprise then that a lot of really smart people have taken up the challenge of understanding and combatting heart disease with great success–deaths from heart attacks have fallen almost 90% since 1970. And a new study published this May in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown very promising results in directly editing the DNA of patients, pushing our efforts into the realm of science fiction.”
Jon Lee Andrade
The New Peptide Craze:
Science, Hype, and Everything In Between
“The recent discussion around peptides has largely been driven by the GLP-1 movement. But how did we get from diabetes medications like Ozempic and Wegovy to people purchasing injectable peptides online and giving themselves weekly injections at home.”
Mary Cundiff
Grads Gone Rogue 
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