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RJ Mackenzie

RJ Mackenzie

Articles by RJ Mackenzie

Vector illustration of implanting of brain chips into human head.

Cell-Electronic Hybrid Chips Could Enable Surgery-Free Brain Implants

Red and green small tomatoes. A new genetic engineering approach helped gene-edited plants grow faster.

Gene-Edited Crops Grow Faster with a Little Help from Bacteria

A drawing of a brain with roads and maps drawn on different sections to represent memory of location information, which is controlled by place cells in the hippocampus.

The Brain’s Inner DJ Balances Electrical Activity to Build Memories

A mountain climber stands in front of snowy mountains and holds a blue canister of portable supplemental oxygen to his face to relieve symptoms of hypoxia due to the high altitude.

Low-Oxygen Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System

Cropped view of senior man playing with puzzles, indicative of dementia risk.

Clogged Glymphatic System Linked to Dementia Risk

A pregnant Black woman with tightly coiled hair sits at a desk in a doctor’s office getting her blood pressure taken.

A Common Protein Test Predicts Preeclampsia Risk in Moms with Sickle Cell Disease

A mouse in ice, representing that cooling down the mouse brain can help a faster recovery from traumatic brain injuries.

Internal Cooling System Improves Recovery After Brain Injury in Mice

A premature infant in the NICU. Premature babies that heard their mother’s voice regularly showed better brain development than infants who did not.

Mom’s Voice Promotes Brain Development in Premature Babies

A drawing of a regulatory T cell as a police officer looking for rouge T cells that could harm the body.

What Are Tregs? Explaining 2025’s Nobel Prize Winning Research

A lab containing NMR instruments.

How a Small Lab Took on One of the World’s Rarest Diseases

A looping spiral of genomic code. Researchers used genomic analysis to determine a predictive obesity score.

Gene Score Predicts Obesity, Even in Young Children

Illustration showing the synapses from two neurons connecting.

To Fuel Their Growth, Cancer Cells Hijack Neurons

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Epic Fail: Sea-Monkeys Sabotage Fieldwork

When Barry Hicks set out to photograph thrombolites, thousands of unexpected visitors photobombed his underwater images.

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