Contributors
Arti Dumbrepatil
desires to positively impact people’s lives by helping them to redefine science by being inclusive, accessible, and fun-filled. As an immigrant, first-generation woman in science who grew up with her single mother in a remote village in India, she found navigating academic life is like walking blindfolded in a forest. Early in her life while exploring insects in the garden she was wowed by science, and now she helps others find their wow in science with her science writing. During her Ph.D. and postdoctoral research in enzymology, she learned that good communication is the key to making others understand science. She loves to apply her content development skills to help others share their research. She is also a mom, and it gives her immense pleasure when her toddler says “FUN” looking at a mushroom after listening to her stories related to “FUNgi”. She believes that anyone can be a scientist as long as they are not bogged down by science.
Articles by Arti Dumbrepatil
Award
From receptor research to cancer drug development: The impact of RTKs
Nov. 26, 2024
Joseph Schlessinger will receive the ASBMB Herbert Tabor Research Award at the 2025 ASBMB Annual meeting, April 12–15 in Chicago.
Journal News
Can a hair-loss drug prevent heart disease?
Sept. 17, 2024
With the approved medication finasteride, researchers in Illinois may have found a new way to kill two birds with one stone.
Society News
Growing a chapter for grad students and postdocs
Sept. 12, 2024
At Penn State, the ASBMB is building a community to help provide these early-career researchers with the tools they need to excel in science and life.
Essay
Immigrants in the sandwich generation
Aug. 14, 2024
Three scientists talk about what it’s like to be wedged between their children and their far-away parents.
Journal News
Decoding microglial language
May 14, 2024
Emory University scientists characterize extracellular vesicles that facilitate intercellular communication.
Journal News
Understanding the fat science
April 9, 2024
Researchers at UCLA investigate lipid remodeling in the liver for energy generation.
Health Observance
Unraveling amyloidosis, a misunderstood disorder
Oct. 26, 2023
Today is World Amyloidosis Day.
Health Observance
Making progress on Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Sept. 7, 2023
Gene therapy and exon skipping are just two approaches to address this inherited disease characterized by progressive muscle weakness, causing fatality in children.
Health Observance
An ancient practice in need of modern-day support
Aug. 29, 2023
August is National Breastfeeding Month.
Science Communication
From pipette to pen
Aug. 17, 2023
Arti Dumbrepatil recounts her journey from postdoc at the bench to professional freelance science communicator.
Health Observance
Fragile X syndrome: 80 years since its discovery
July 21, 2023
People with the condition, which is the leading cause of autism spectrum disorders, do not make FMRP, a protein that is essential to brain development.
Journal News
Proteomic clues to oocyte development
June 7, 2023
Researchers in Nanjing, China, have identified functions of critical proteins and pathways for female germ cell maturation.
Pride
Redefining STEM
May 30, 2023
The U.K.-based organization Pride in STEM says it aims to “queer up science spaces” and to “science up queer spaces.”
In Memoriam
In memoriam: Robert B. Sanders
Feb. 20, 2023
He made seminal contributions to reproductive biochemistry and authored the book “Contributions of African American Scientists to the Fields of Science, Medicine, and Inventions.”
Journal News
cAMP: Mapping a second messenger
Feb. 16, 2022
How does protein phosphorylation contribute to localized cellular signaling?
Award
Smith unravels secrets of nature’s catalysts
Dec. 17, 2021
Structural biologist Janet Smith has won the ASBMB’s 2022 Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry.
Health Observance
Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2021
Oct. 14, 2021
Breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer in American women. Here we offer an overview of the different forms, modes of detection and therapies.
Health Observance
From pigeon guano to the brain
Sept. 20, 2021
Exploring the journey of the deadly fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans
(and its less widespread but still quite serious cousin C. gattii).
Journal News
Cholesterol lessons from bears
June 22, 2021
When hibernating, they have twice the cholesterol of a healthy human, and they barely exercise. So why don't bears get heart disease?
Profile
A global champion of the big puzzle — biochemistry
Dec. 7, 2020
Alexandra Newton, an ASBMB member and the third woman to serve as president of IUBMB, is focused on diversity and inclusion
News
Cannabis: A secret weapon against superbugs
Nov. 5, 2020
Eric Brown’s team at McMaster University demonstrated that CBG targets the cell membrane of bacteria to fight off biofilms and, when combined with antibiotics, fights drug resistance.
Journal News
From the journals: JLR
May 19, 2020
Topics of recent Journal of Lipid Research papers include the biology of bacterial membranes, domain architecture of the plasma membrane and cholesterol levels in a corneal disease.