Sahana Sitaraman, PhD

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD

Articles by Sahana Sitaraman, PhD

A watercolor illustration of the human brain.

New Neurons Continue to Form in Adult Human Brains

An abstract illustration depicting the use of artificial intelligence to study the human genome.

AI Tool Identifies Disease-Driving Promoter Mutations 

Used plastic bottles collected at a landfill for recycling.

Designer Microbes Make Painkillers from Plastic Waste

An illustration showing the accumulation of amyloid plaques between nerve cells, which is the underlying cause of disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

A group of newborn mice with their mother.

Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

Flowering Asarum flower and pollinating Megaselia fly.

Floral Stink Evolved Through Three Amino Acid Changes

An illustration of an eye made with dots.

Is the World Spinning, or Is It Me? How the Brain Distinguishes Self and External Motion

An illustration depicting the fundamental relationship between sound and life. It shows sound waves merging with a DNA helix, over a background of mouse cells.

Sound Waves Can Change Fat Cell Fates

Large clumps of bacteria (pink) entrapped by webs of DNA (green) released by neutrophils in human urine.

When a Urinary Tract Infection Strikes, What Protects the Kidneys?

Time-lapsed pictures of a starfish oocyte with light-induced pinching on one end of the cell.

Round Cells Square Up with an Optogenetic Switch

A human somatosensory pathway recreated in a dish.

Neural Assembloids Recreate a Key Pain-Sensing Circuit in a Dish

An illustration showing diverse protein domains, represented as squiggly gray structures, on a black background.

Unstable Protein Variants Linked to Many Human Diseases

An abstract concept of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease depicted using the loss of leaves from a tree in the shape of a human face.

A Protein Ratio Could Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Decades in Advance

An infant thinking and possibly forming memories.

Babies Form Memories. Why Do Adults Forget Them?   

An illustration of the human intestinal microbiota. Hypoxic guts can help avoid fungal blooms post antibiotic treatment.

Hypoxia Makes the Gut Healthy

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What Causes an Earworm?

Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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Explore synthetic DNA’s many applications in cancer research

Weaving the Fabric of Cancer Research with Synthetic DNA

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Enhancing Elution of Plasmid DNA

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Explore new strategies for improving plasmid DNA manufacturing workflows.

Overcoming Obstacles in Plasmid DNA Manufacturing

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