Your armpits carry millions of tiny microbial passengers. Watch scientists study the ecosystem of the armpit and learn how deodorants can affect not only your social life, but also your microbial life.
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Pharma Quest
New compounds under development at NC Central University’s Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE) could be key to creating a better treatment for diabetes.
Cycling Cicadas
For all of the high-tech science that cicadas are providing the researchers at North Carolina Central University’s Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE), it seems only fitting to talk a little more about the mysterious insects. That’s because there might not be another insect that provokes more emotional reaction than the periodical cicada; a creature that you will only find between the eastern half of the Great Plains and the Atlantic Coast.
That’s right.
Periodical cicadas are not found anywhere else on Earth.
A Model Fish
Researchers can't test experimental cures for diseases and possible drug therapies on humans so they use the zebrafish for initial testing. That's because the journey from egg to embryo is the same in zebrafish and humans.