No matter who you are, your cells experience a wide variety of environmental stresses on a daily basis. These stressors could be as severe as an exposure to toxins, or something as commonplace as ultraviolet (UV) damage from the sun. In the Young-Baird research laboratory at the Uniformed Services University (USU), researchers, headed by principal investigator Dr. Sara Young-Baird, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BIO) at USU’s School of Medicine (SOM), are studying how our cells respond to stress, and how their findings can be applied to complex conditions – specifically those that affect our military service members.