Photograph of Sahana Sitaraman. The photograph is in grayscale. Sahana has short, curly hair, round-framed glasses, and is wearing a windbreaker jacket.

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD

Assistant Editor at Labx Media Group

Education

National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

PhD

Award

Rukhmabai Initiatives Fellowship

Sharon Dunwoody Science Journalism Mentoring Program

Articles by Sahana Sitaraman, PhD

A mouse aorta with immunofluorescence tagging of various molecules, emphasizing the close connection between vasculature and fat.

How Fat Type Shapes Hypertension Risk

An aerial view of a glacier, which houses millions of microbes within its icy interior.

The Ice is Alive: Uncovering the Vanishing World of Glacial Microbes

A young female cancer patient spending time with a friend. They are sitting outside, enjoying tea and conversation, as the sun sets behind them.

Social Interactions Slow Cancer Via an Anxiety-Reducing Neural Circuit

Two hands massaging a knee, indicating pain.

Restoring Autophagy Eases Chronic Pain in Mice

A bowl of kopi luwak beans, also called civet coffee.

What’s the Secret to Civet Coffee’s Distinctive Taste?

AI-produced rendering of mouse brain regionalization overlaid with network motifs, symbolizing the fusion of artificial intelligence and neuroanatomical discovery.

A Neural Network Maps the Mouse Brain in Unprecedented Detail

A network of sympathetic nerves (white) innervating and growing alongside the eggs (green) within a fragment of a human ovary. A large growing follicle containing an egg is shown in magenta.

A Cellular Atlas of the Aging Ovary Reveals How Fertility Fades

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Peripheral Immune Tolerance Research Wins Nobel Prize

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Ants Can Ferment Milk to Make Yogurt. But How?

A woman capturing a photograph of an elephant, while on a safari. Such salient moments can strengthen the memory of mundane stuff that occurred before or after.

Why Do Some Memories Stick, But Others Fade Away?

Young woman clutching abdomen in discomfort, showing symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease.

Why Smoking Surprisingly Soothes Ulcerative Colitis Symptoms

Asymptomatic bacterial biofilm (red) lining a cholesterol-laden coronary artery plaque.

Biofilm Bacteria May Fuel Heart Attacks

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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