Deirdre O’Neill – NU Sci Magazine

All that and a bag of chips

Tartrazine, a dye commonly found in Doritos, has the ability to render tissues transparent in living mice. A team of researchers at Stanford University used theoretical physics to study how this dye changes how opaque body tissues interact with light, making them see-through. The components that make up living tissues have different refractive indices, which […]

To be or not to be: The ethics of the deliberate extinction of Anopheles gambiae

Environment, Health, World / Deirdre O'Neill / December 7, 2024

As the primary malaria vector of sub-Saharan Africa, the Anopheles gambiae mosquito is the deadliest animal in the world. In 2022, there were an estimated 249 million malaria cases worldwide. Global malaria cases have increased annually since 2015, with countries in Africa facing the majority of case increases. Recent progress has stalled, and many are

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