Julia R Migliore
Over six months ago, I gave birth to my first child. He has not even experienced summer yet, but it feels like I have been his mother forever. Maybe, in a sense, I have been. Any parent will agree that life before children becomes a blur the moment they enter the world. Whether or not …
This blog is all about proteins, but what even is a protein? Think about how you would define "protein" for a moment. Feel free to comment and share your definition. Now that it's in the open, throw it in the garbage. If you ask Google to "define protein," this is what you will find: "Pro•tein …
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We live in an amazing world! When we dig into the details of nature, we find things that surprise us, make us curious, and often leave us bewildered. Even our best scientists only understand small pieces of the complexity of the world. I believe that there is a God who not only understands it all, …
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Curiosity is a driving force of scientific research. Whether in graduate school or elementary grades, anyone who has been taught "the scientific method" knows that asking questions lies at its core. What is on the other side of the moon? Where do a flower's colors come from? How does a single cell grow into a …
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We live in an amazing world! When we dig into the details of nature, we find things that surprise us, make us curious, and often leave us bewildered. Even our best scientists only understand small pieces of the complexity of the world. I believe that there is a God who not only understands it all, …
We live in an amazing world! When we dig into the details of nature, we find things that surprise us, make us curious, and often leave us bewildered. Even our best scientists only understand small pieces of the complexity of the world. I believe that there is a God who not only understands it all, …
We live in an amazing world! When we dig into the details of nature, we find things that surprise us, make us curious, and often leave us bewildered. Even our best scientists only understand small pieces of the complexity of the world. I believe that there is a God who not only understands it all, …
We live in an amazing world! When we dig into the details of nature, we find things that surprise us, make us curious, and often leave us bewildered. Even our best scientists only understand small pieces of the complexity of the world. I believe that there is a God who not only understands it all, …
Obviously, all Christians (and non-Christians) have a brain, but some like to challenge it more than others. I enjoy reading books that make me think, especially about how faith in Jesus impacts our thinking. If you also love Jesus and thinking about thinking, here are five books I recommend: 1. I Don't Have Enough Faith …
Fluorescence is a phenomenon in which a molecule emits light of a specific wavelength when it is activated by light of another specific wavelength. We call these the emission and excitation wavelengths, respectively. For example, GFP (which you can read about here) emits green light when it is activated by blue or UV light. Sometimes …
My throat is itchy, my nose is clogged, and my body is achey. Schedules were changed, work was missed, chores were left undone. Most likely, my family can blame a virus for our less-than-stellar week. We all know viruses, but our shared knowledge comes with a largely negative attitude. From little colds like mine to …
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I spent three years of my life starting every research presentation with this fact: science has limits. More specifically, what we can see under a microscope has limits. Magnification might overcome the limits of our bare eyes, but even with the best microscope that could ever be conceived, we will hit a limit to what …
