Rohini Subrahmanyam

Rohini Subrahmanyam

Live Science Contributor

Rohini Subrahmanyam is a scientist-turned science writer with a PhD in Biology and postdoctoral experience in Developmental Biology. She mostly likes writing about interesting creatures on our planet, ranging from zombie flies and regenerating worms, to intelligent octopuses and mysterious comb jellies. 

Latest articles by Rohini Subrahmanyam

A view of a petri dish with hundreds of tiny spiral worms in it

Parasitic worms cause terrible diseases — could the viruses they carry be to blame?

By Rohini Subrahmanyam published

Roundworms harbor viruses, which could be responsible for these parasites' painful symptoms in humans, scientists theorize.

Viruses, Infections & Disease
photo of a woman wearing a suit and collared shirt adjusting a thermostat on the wall of a conference room in an office building

Do women get cold more easily than men?

By Rohini Subrahmanyam published

Does a person's sex make a difference in how they react to temperature changes? Here's the science.

Health
An artist's rendering of red blood cells

Lab-made universal blood could revolutionize transfusions. Scientists just got one step closer to making it.

By Rohini Subrahmanyam published

Enzymes produced by gut bacteria can remove long sugar chains in type A and B blood, leading to improved compatibility with type O.

Medicine & Drugs
A Hummingbird hawkmoth captured midflight feeding on a purple flower with its long proboscis.

Hummingbird hawk-moth: The bird-like insect with a giant sucking mouthpart

By Rohini Subrahmanyam published

Just as humans rely on their eyes to make precise movements with their hands, hummingbird hawk-moths use continuous visual feedback to precisely position their proboscis in the center of flowers.

Moths