Articles by Sarah Anderson, PhD

Fighting frostbite with antifreeze

Munia Ganguli harnessed cryopreservative chemicals to develop a topical cream that could prevent skin injury from the cold.

A grey photo of a person’s lower back with his hand clutching his left side overlaid with a drawing of kidneys in red and blue.

| 10 min read

New tools for detecting kidney transplant rejection

From organ temperature to protein in the urine, early warning signs of kidney rejection could improve transplant outcomes.

A close-up shot of an eye shows a contact lens over the iris and redness in the white of the eye.

| 9 min read

A dry eye problem offers a solution

Researchers are developing next-generation contact lenses that combat the disrupted fluid dynamics behind contact lens-induced dry eye syndrome.

A drawing of a person’s head showing their brain with blue and purple flashes of light. Next to the head are two neurons, one with a damaged myelin sheath and one with an intact myelin sheath.

| 9 min read

A recipe for remyelination

Molecules that promote restoration of the neuron’s myelin sheath could offer a reparative therapy for multiple sclerosis.

A woman wearing a blue shirt presses her hand to the throat of a mean wearing a blue shirt and drinking from a blue cup.

| 10 min read

Making cancer treatment easier to swallow

Injecting muscle-derived cells into the tongue could help alleviate swallowing difficulties caused by head and neck cancer treatment.

A small shopping card holds one gray insulin pen and one blue insulin pen. Blue and white boxes and caps for the pens sit next to the cart.

| 2 min read

Drug accessibility is everyone’s job

To help bring their discoveries to the public, researchers should implement strategies to enhance access throughout the drug development process.

On the left, an atomic force microscopy image of a group of light brown TRPV3 ion channels is shown against a black background with white arrow heads pointing to a tetramer and pentamer. In the top right, a close up atomic force microscopy image of the tetramer and pentamer is shown.

| 4 min read

Zooming in on pore dilation

Microscopy images reveal the structural change that enlarges an ion channel pore, opening new directions in drug discovery and delivery.

A blue structural drawing of a protein superimposed over a burst of glowing red dots and numbers.

| 4 min read

Cancer proteogenomics pave the way for precision medicine

Multiomics data analysis identified structural mutations in tumor genomes with important implications for cancer treatment.

A drawing of a purple hand with 4 pills in the open palm. One pill contains a syringe. In the background are DNA, antibodies, a cross-sectional diagram of a robotic capsule, and mathematic equations.

| 10+ min read

Robotic pills deliver gastrointestinal injections

Researchers developed ingestible capsules that inject drugs into the stomach and small intestine, providing a novel oral delivery method for biologics.

A side view of a man wearing a button-up shirt, dress pants, and loafers sitting in a box with his hand against the top of the box in a dark room.

| 2 min read

Scientists, don’t stick to the status quo

We should expand our definition of what it means to be a scientist to include all of the important roles that stem from this identity.

Two microscopy images show a green cell resting on a pink horizontal membrane and breaking through the membrane.

| 3 min read

A squirmy system for studying cancer’s spread

Researchers use fluorescence-based imaging to visualize a cellular invasion event in worms, revealing candidates for gene knockdown strategies to block metastasis.