People sometimes gain a sudden idea through insight after being stuck on a problem. Researchers have been studying insight as a crucial component of creative problem-solving in the past decades. However, the role of insight in mathematical problem-solving remains unclear, while mathematics is essential in scientific development and ubiquitous in...
These supplementary materials are in support of the manuscript "Deconstructing synthetic biology across scales: a conceptual approach for training synthetic biologists," in which we describe a framework for synthetic biology training that deconstructs biotechnologies across scales—molecular, circuit/network, cell/cell-free systems, biological communities, and societal—giving students a holistic toolkit to integrate cross-disciplinary...
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic illness that affects the central nervous system. At age 11, my twin sister was diagnosed with MS and one common phrase heard is “Kids don’t get MS”. This mistaken perception motivated me to write a creative piece, a TV pilot that follows two 12...