Peter Rogers
Dr. Peter Rogers grew up milking cows and building barns. This provided him the transferable skills necessary for a smooth transition into academic research. Three years of genetics research led to six years of immunology research, which led to a PhD from Auburn University. That led to three and half years of instructional design research at Tufts University School of Medicine.
His expertise includes biomedical sciences & technology, social determinants of health, bovine birthing, training & development, and cognitive psychology. He’s taught dozens of university courses, ranging from Principles of Biology to Advanced Medical Immunology. He is currently co-writing a book with his father, George Rogers, called How to Correctly Hold a Flashlight: A Disagreement in Academic and Agricultural Perspectives.
People with higher immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.
Cancer cells hoard iron in unusually high quantities. Scientists have discovered how to leverage this to create safer cancer drugs.
The technology could yield “made-to-order resistance genes” to protect crops against pathogens and pests.
Someday, scientists could use stem cells to guide the development of synthetic organs for patients awaiting transplants.
“Domesticated viral genes” may not be domesticated as scientists thought.
A secret to a long, healthy life may lie in the diversity of gut viruses, which can supercharge bacterial metabolism and resist disease.
It’s safe to use your face cream, as long as you aren’t eating it.
Rapamycin is potentially the most powerful anti-aging drug ever discovered. However, due to its unlucky history, few know of it.
The study was small and didn’t include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.
Scientists are still figuring out why tirzepatide causes weight loss. One theory is that they “accidentally” created a new hormone.
Gum disease begins in the mouth but spreads to the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is just one of several diseases linked to poor oral health.
New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.
Pathogenic, self-propagating proteins called prions found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s are also found in Down syndrome patients.
Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that cause leprosy, have the surprising ability to grow and reverse aging in armadillo livers.
The potential new drug is in a class of its own, as it works differently than any other antidepressant on the market.
This opens the door to manipulating networks of specific neurons.
Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.
Oxytocin can boost heart cells’ ability to regenerate.
Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.
The researchers and patients are excited to see if color vision will develop over time.
The recipe for a perfect date night: a rom-com, a bowl of popcorn, and a syringe of testosterone — at least for gerbils, anyway.
HIV mutates rapidly, which has made the development of a vaccine an enormous challenge for decades. Finally, we might have one.
When we feel sick, it’s not just the pathogen to blame. Our brain cranks up the temperature, and the neurons responsible finally have been found.
The antibodies elicited by the “S2 vaccine” not only neutralize COVID’s multiple strains but also coronaviruses that cause the common cold.
A clever neuroscience experiment shows that the “other-race effect” is likely due to a lack of experience and perceptual expertise rather than racism.
When scientists tested this hydrogel on mice, they had cleaner teeth than most humans.
Let’s hope that squid don’t evolve lungs and legs, or humanity might be in real trouble.
When it comes to vetting people for friendship, body odor seems to be a decisive factor.
For over three decades, toxic proteins were believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease. However, recent studies suggest it might be metabolic reprogramming.