Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "This is the first ever footage of a human embryo implanting in the uterine tissue in real time!! For decades, we no idea why 60% of miscarriages happen during implantation. The most crucial moment in human reproduction was a complete black box. Until now. Scientists just filmed human embryos implanting in real-time for the FIRST TIME EVER. Scientists created artificial uterine tissue using collagen and filmed embryos for 24 hours stra
Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "This is the first ever footage of a human embryo implanting in the uterine tissue in real time!! For decades, we no idea why 60% of miscarriages happen during implantation. The most crucial moment in human reproduction was a complete black box. Until now. Scientists just filmed human embryos implanting in real-time for the FIRST TIME EVER. Scientists created artificial uterine tissue using collagen and filmed embryos for 24 hours stra
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Whoa. Scientists have successfully sequenced the ENTIRE genome of the oldest ancient Egyptian DNA ever analyzed 🤯 🧬 For a deeper dive on this story comment “bones” This is huge news because up until now the vast majority of what we know about Ancient Egyptian life comes from artifacts and hieroglyphs. Genetic evidence? Incredibly difficult to come by. But now advances in technology allowed scientists to fully decode th
Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Whoa. Scientists have successfully sequenced the ENTIRE genome of the oldest ancient Egyptian DNA ever analyzed 🤯 🧬 For a deeper dive on this story comment “bones” This is huge news because up until now the vast majority of what we know about Ancient Egyptian life comes from artifacts and hieroglyphs. Genetic evidence? Incredibly difficult to come by. But now advances in technology allowed scientists to fully decode th
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "This is why I love science. It’s even more cool that it’s physics. People are so brilliant. Imagine hypothesizing (correctly) 100 years ago this concept and then for it to be physically proven by other brilliant people in 2025. Incredible. The first image is an artistic rendering of the actual captured images by the MIT scientists that you can see at 1:53 or here: https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-physicists-snap-first-images-free-range-a
Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "This is why I love science. It’s even more cool that it’s physics. People are so brilliant. Imagine hypothesizing (correctly) 100 years ago this concept and then for it to be physically proven by other brilliant people in 2025. Incredible. The first image is an artistic rendering of the actual captured images by the MIT scientists that you can see at 1:53 or here: https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-physicists-snap-first-images-free-range-a
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "It’s biological, I don’t make the rules 🤷🏽‍♀️ TLDR per the science, it is in fact our body, our choice ✨ Study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7341926/ Scientists found that the female egg will slow down any sperm they deem as a weak link or undesirable, while speeding up the sperm they do want by releasing chemoattractants. Ultimately, the female egg has the final say and chooses which sperm will be allowed to successfull
Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "It’s biological, I don’t make the rules 🤷🏽‍♀️ TLDR per the science, it is in fact our body, our choice ✨ Study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7341926/ Scientists found that the female egg will slow down any sperm they deem as a weak link or undesirable, while speeding up the sperm they do want by releasing chemoattractants. Ultimately, the female egg has the final say and chooses which sperm will be allowed to successfull
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller | How IVF was invented is hands down one of the most incredible stories in science. I’m forever in awe of the brilliant minds who think so... | Instagram
Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller | How IVF was invented is hands down one of the most incredible stories in science. I’m forever in awe of the brilliant minds who think so... | Instagram
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "This is LITERALLY mind blowing 🤯 wowowow Researchers discover the first ever fossilized human GLASS brain in Pompeii from a young man who died during the Mt Vesuvius eruption. This is the first ever case of human tissue transforming to glass 😮 Scientists are still not exactly sure how this happened since glass requires very specific conditions to form: extreme high heat paired with a rapid cool down. What is for sure is that this ha
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "This is LITERALLY mind blowing 🤯 wowowow Researchers discover the first ever fossilized human GLASS brain in Pompeii from a young man who died during the Mt Vesuvius eruption. This is the first ever case of human tissue transforming to glass 😮 Scientists are still not exactly sure how this happened since glass requires very specific conditions to form: extreme high heat paired with a rapid cool down. What is for sure is that this ha
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Scientists just discovered that the Darwin Bark Spider that spins THE strongest webs on Earth AND is the strongest biological material known to science, can only be spun by the females. Male spiders can spin webs too but they’re 2x as weak as the female web Now the medical industry is racing to use spiders silk to solve longstanding issues, like cartilage loss. Unlike joint replacements, spider silk can actually MIMIC our tissue struc
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Scientists just discovered that the Darwin Bark Spider that spins THE strongest webs on Earth AND is the strongest biological material known to science, can only be spun by the females. Male spiders can spin webs too but they’re 2x as weak as the female web Now the medical industry is racing to use spiders silk to solve longstanding issues, like cartilage loss. Unlike joint replacements, spider silk can actually MIMIC our tissue struc
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "I did not know this!! This is the largest documented wave known to science and it happened in a bay not the ocean 👀 Tsunami’s can be caused by forces other than an earthquake in the ocean. The biggest tsunami (aka mega tsunami) to have ever occurred in documented history was in 1958 in a remote part of Alaska called Lituya Bay. An earthquake nearby shook loose 90 million tons of rocks that plunged into the bay at 100 mph trigg
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "BREAKING: America’s Arctic is being sold to Big Oil and we have until August 4th to help stop it. 13 million acres of pristine wilderness, home to polar bears, caribou, and Indigenous communities, could be handed over for drilling. The Western Arctic is already warming 4x faster than anywhere else on Earth. So, more drilling = more carbon released = worse climate crisis for ALL of us. But here’s the thing: WE can fight back. There’s a
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Right now the biggest polluters in the country just got permission to dump toxic chemicals into our air and all they had to do was send an email. Yup. 68 coal-fired power plants across 23 states sent in those requests and got exemptions. Just like that. Now, these plants are legally allowed to release mercury, arsenic, and other toxic heavy metals into the air we breathe. But we can fight back! Go to my header where you can a message
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The Queen who was never found… yet! #cleopatra #ancienthistory #ancientegypt #archeology #mummies #egyptiantiktok
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Scientists just discovered that the mysterious ancient organism, Prototaxites, isn’t a plant, animal, or fungus. It might actually be part of a 7th kingdom of life, an entire branch of evolution that vanished 400 million years ago without leaving a single relative behind. In other words, life but not as we know it 🤯 Prototaxites is not a plant. It’s not an animal. It’s definitely not a fungus. Scientists now think Prototaxites might
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What was found in the discovery at Taposiris Magna #ancienthistory #ancientegypt #cleopatra #archeology #egyptiantiktok
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Two Dutch female engineers have redesigned the speculum after 180 years. Meet Lilium! The new speculum whose design is based on a flower, made from soft medical rubber, designed WITH patients, and not just doctors, can be self-administered and sustainable & reusable! They won the 2024 Braun award and smashed their crowdfunding goal in 48 hours. Because when you actually ASK women what they need in healthcare, innovation happens. Liliu
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Scientists are rewriting textbooks on how cells divide! Scientists at the University of Manchester found that mitosis, one of the fundamentals of life and basic biology, may not work in the way we always thought. Typically mitosis is the splitting of a parent cell into 2 daughter cells of equal shape and size. Turns out this isn’t always the case. Oftentimes the daughter cells differ in shape…and, as the team discovered, also function
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "The California Gold Rush is truly the horrible gift that keeps on giving. Watch our new YT episode - a deeper dive on how the gold rush changed California forever with the California water wars, in collaboration with PBS Origins, on Earth Day, April 22nd at 8 am PST/11 am EST! Make sure you’re not subscribed to the tilscience YT channel if you’re not already!! #didyouknow #howdidthathappen #califonia #goldrush #environmental #water"
168.7K viewsApr 21, 2025
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "BREAKING: The first HORMONE-free male birth control pill just cleared its safety trial! YCT-529 works by blocking a Vitamin A metabolite that essentially hits the brakes on the sperm production processs- no hormones, just pure science. A prior survey found that 75% of men surveyed in the US and Canada are “very interested” in trying a new male contraception outside of condoms & vasectomies. Efficacy trials are still pending, but if al
151.1K views9 months ago
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "One of the biggest misconceptions about quantum computers is that they’re just really powerful supercomputers. But that’s not true. They’re fundamentally different machines and even more different to a laptop. Quantum computers excel at specific tasks (encryption, molecular behavior, optimization) while classical computers handle sequential logic better. Your laptop isn’t going anywhere. But quantum computers will solve problems we ne
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Scientists discovered a brand new blood type! A woman in Guadeloupe is the only known person in the world to have this blood type that scientists are calling “Guada negative” That means she’s the only person in the world who is compatible with herself for blood transfusions. This is both scientifically fascinating but also medically challenging. So now scientists are trying to see if there are other “Guada negative” people out there t
113.7K views10 months ago
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "What exactly IS period blood? Because it’s not like regular blood, in fact, in the limited studies done on menstrual fluid, it’s been found to contain proteins & other substances found nowhere else in the body. And one of those magical substances is stem cells. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much untapped medical potential inside period blood and scientists are finally realizing this. I had the immense pleasure of to
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "California has a pretty grim history. This groundbreaking archaeological evidence found back in 2012 is still having an impact even 10 years later in 2022 We’re doing a deeper dive on this story and the greater California water wars in collab with PBS Origins with our new YT video dropping on Earth Day, April 22nd at 11 am EST/8 am PST. So make sure you’re subscribed to the tilscience YT channel!! #didyouknow #nativeamericanhistory #c
181.1K viewsApr 18, 2025
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Now THIS might be the most important paper of 2025. Harvard scientists just answered the ultimate question: How did life actually begin? Building on the legendary 1952 Miller-Urey experiment, Pérez-Mercader’s team used mathematical biology equations as a recipe to synthesize artificial life…from scratch! They created artificial cells that metabolize, reproduce, and evolve - watching 4 billion years of evolutionary history unfold in re
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "This is going to rewrite medical textbooks. 🫡 In a groundbreaking world first achievement, Chinese scientists have reversed a 25 year old’s Type 1 Diabetes by using her own stem cells. The operation lasted 30 minutes and 2.5 months later the patient was producing her own insulin 🤯 What makes this case unique is that this stem cell transplant used the patient’s own cells, hopefully avoiding the need for immunosuppressants. Scientists
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Scientists are sounding the alarm about “mirror bacteria” Comment SPOOKY for the deep dive article that goes beyond the video on my weekly newsletter on Substack Life on Earth follows a strict molecular “handedness” rule: DNA twists right, proteins use left-handed amino acids. This homochirality is one of biology’s greatest mysteries - and now 38 scientists (including Nobel winners) warn that creating organisms with opposite handednes
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Intuitive Machines is making history by installing - wait for it - the first ever 4G LTE network on the moon! Yes, you read that right. 4G on the MOON 🌕 This is part of a greater collaboration to aid in lunar exploration to provide HD streaming, direct lunar to Earth communication and telemetry data in real time. If you could post from the moon, what would you say?? 😄 #space #spaceexploration #moon #nasa #IntuitiveMachinesPartner #d
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "I can’t believe I’ve lived in Southern California my entire life & didn’t know about this. RIP Catalina Island if we don’t do something soon. #oceanconservation #oceanpollution #sciencefacts #didyouknow"
2M viewsNov 30, 2023
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "You know that racing heart feeling? Or when you KNOW you’re about to get sick before any symptoms show up? That’s not magic, it’s Piezo. Dr. Ardem Patapoutian won a Nobel Prize in 2021 for discovering this pressure sensing protein that gives us our true “sixth sense.” Now scientists believe Piezo might explain why some people experience anxiety and depression differently and are testing whether we can actually RESTORE this internal se
139.1K views5 months ago
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Titanic Sinking: New Evidence Debunks Human Error Theory
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "Is 2025 just going to be the year of wild scientific discoveries?? Scientists at the University of Toronto discovered, by chance, that it’s possible to inherit traits without DNA or RNA 🤯 It’s not clear yet if this happens in humans too, but if so, then it could possibly explain missing heritability Read the full study here: https://www.nature.com/ncb/volumes/26/issues/10 #genetics #science #raredisease #dna"
849K viewsMar 26, 2025
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Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "The girl with two immune systems 🤯 In 2008, 9 year old Demi-Lee Brennan received a liver transplant. 9 months later her blood type completely changed. She was becoming her donor. Her body was replacing her entire blood cell system with her donor’s.every This is the only known case of complete hematopoietic chimerism and it saved her life. It’s also the only known case of operational tolerance: the ability to receive a transplant with
406.2K views3 months ago
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