Health Science

The Unlikely Source of Your Next Medicine You probably assume your next antibiotic comes from a petrochemical plant. Or a high-tech bioreactor in a sterile lab. You're almost certainly wrong. The truth is messier, and more organic. A review just out in Frontiers in Environmental Engineering makes

The P-Value Trap and Why It Fails Us I remember sitting in a cramped office at Leiden University last Tuesday. Rain tapped against the window while I stared at a rejected manuscript. The reviewers had one comment that stuck with me. They said, "This is statistically significant but

The definition you learned in high school is incomplete Most of us grew up thinking scientific research means “doing experiments and writing papers.” Tidy, right? But that framing misses the actual engine driving discovery. In Dutch health science labs right now—those working on polymer scaffolds for drug delivery or

The one shot that changes everything One line in the latest release stopped me cold. Not a new pill. Not an implant. Cutting code. The AHA announced results for a CRISPR-Cas therapy targeting ANGPTL. This targets severe hypertriglyceridemia. For patients who currently live on strict diets and a heavy

The moment everything changed for a Tokyo chemist You're holding your coffee cup. Right hand on the handle, left hand steadying it. That tiny, ordinary gesture mirrors a chemical mystery that stumped scientists for over a century. Kenso Soai wasn't in a lab when he won

The % problem nobody talks about at conferences I've sat in enough faculty seminars to know the exact moment a room goes quiet. It isn't when someone presents data confirming their hypothesis. It's when an audience member asks, "But did you run it twice?