I like butterflies and butterflies like salt. In the Amazon Rainforest the butterflies land on me desperate for sodium when...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 22, 1981.] Nearly a year after the conservative Heritage Foundation called for a renewed...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest's fiction category.] There was once a small Martian called K who was...

Being an OB-GYN, I imagine, is a lot like playing center midfield.

[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 23, 2008.] There is an important initiative on the November California ballot that would...

I’ve recently realized, and it’s kind of scary but I am a demographic that is necessary I am from a...

Exploring the ethics of living with biomedical knowledge and the negotiation that follows when clinical data meets consumer tech.

[ Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1973.] Monopoly control and citizen, especially minority, participation are crucial factors in...

It rained the way only Kerala knows how— without hesitation, without edges.

[Originally published in Synapse on Sept. 29, 1983.] In question is whether transforming living organisms or creating new ones could...

Applications for a new round of the Environmental Scholars Program are open to all UCSF students who have at least...

Once the obligations of an international agreement are broken for the first time, it's easier to continue breaking the agreement...

From Britain’s NHS to emerging diagnostic technologies, how dentistry, early detection and health economics could shape the future of healthcare...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Non Fiction category.] When I was sixteen, I was diagnosed with polycystic...