Alice Ball was 23 years old when she devised the method to extract the active principles of the most used treatment against leprosy before the discovery of antibiotics. Unfortunately, her premature death almost had her forgotten. Alice Augusta Ball was born in Seattle in 1892, in a humble but fightingRead More →
Happy 2020 to all of you, micronautes! With this we want to recommend a post of Micronauts for each month of the year. Let’s start! January This month marks the 10th anniversary of the fateful earthquake in Haiti. The bad conditions in which the country was left led to aRead More →
The music industry moves masses. So, could science reach more people through music? A group of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched a couple of years ago the Biota Beats project, one of the first initiatives to bring science and music together. Lately a lot of effort hasRead More →
The Black Death is an historical example of infectious disease with a rapid onset, local persistence for more than 4 centuries and eventual extinction due to causes that are not currently understood. Few days ago Nature published an interesting paper that sheds light on the journey through Europe of theRead More →
What do Franz Schubert, Emily Brontë and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec have to do with each other? All three died young due to diseases of bacterial origin that today are treated with antibiotics. The discovery of penicillin in 1928 by Alexander Fleming marked the beginning of the era of antibiotics.Read More →
Throughout history we find women scientists with an exceptional career, but who have not received the recognition they deserve. And although society struggles against this difference, it is interesting to know the lives and experiences of important women scientists to prevent history from repeating itself. Today, in honor of theRead More →
