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Hello everyone! My name is Leah Berger, and I’m a student volunteer with Ageless Science. I’m especially interested in biological anthropology, so I’ll be sharing some of my own posts from leahbergersblog.com to get things rolling! The Trailblazing Work of Professor Lynette Sievert When I spoke with Professor Lynette Sievert, a biological anthropologist at UMass Amherst who studies women’s health and menopause, I left feeling both inspired and alarmed. Her work highlights ho

This is a continuation of my previous post, Book Review: Breath From Salt (Part 1 - Summary). Trivedi’s narrative of these scientific...

Bijal Trivedi, award-winning journalist and senior science writer for the National Geographic, has stunned with her debut novel, Breath...

This week, I spent the last amazing days with my fellow CEMS interns (pictured above), concluding with intern research presentations and...

Image: Agilent Seahorse XF Analyzer, running our Seahorse assay experiment I’m excited to report that I performed my first Seahorse assay...

Figure: heat map I created using GraphPad, combined cytokine data from months May through July. After nearly two months of working in the...

Image: my dimensional analysis and concentration/volume calculations for our Naproxen/Ibuprofen experiment. After realizing our drug...

After four incredible weeks of observing and conducting my advisor’s experiments, I was able to design my own novel experiment this week!...

Image: live microscopy of neutrophil swarming around Zymosan bacterial target. Analysis of neutrophil swarming imaging consumed the...

Image: microfluidic assay I created during microfabrication and prototyping workshop. Weekly seminars are available for CEMS summer...

I’m excited to report that I’ve begun to fall into the routine of the lab after my second week at the MGH Center for Engineering in...

I've just concluded my first week as an intern at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery (CEMS)....