By Tim Daugird What if I told you that if enough people got a flu shot, we could all eliminate […]
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The Human Genome Project: More Questions than Answers
By Laetitia Meyrueix The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an amazing endeavor to map the full human genome. A genome […]
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Autoimmunity: How T Cells Go Wrong
By Christian Agosto-Burgos Every single day we are all exposed to thousands of nasty and tiny pathogens, such as bacteria, […]
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CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing of Humans – Future or Fiction?
By Dominika Trzilova You’re half of your mom and half of your dad. You get different characteristics from each parent, many […]
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Blood
By Eva Vitucci Blood. It makes some people squeamish, some people faint, but it makes all of us alive. Blood […]
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The Other Humans
By Rachel Cherney “Where did we come from?” “Why are we here?” These questions have been asked since the dawn […]
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Sonic the Hedgehog is Not Just for Video Games
By Julia DiFiore Much like Fortnite today, Sonic the Hedgehog was everywhere in the early 1990s – from video games […]
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Forest Fire Flames and Smoke: Double the Trouble
By Eva Vitucci As of Friday November 16, 2018, California was home to the three most polluted cities in the […]
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Directing the Immune System Towards Cancer
By Clare Gyorke We’ve all heard of the big bad Cancer. There are many types of cancer, and cancer – […]
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WinSPIRE 2019 – Call for Applications
WinSPIRE (Women in Science Promoting Inclusion in Research Experiences) is a six-week-long paid summer internship program that pairs high school women […]
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The Bionic Mushroom
By Rachel Cherney A fungus among us can now produce electricity with the help of cyanobacteria – a certain species […]
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Nature’s Methods for Surviving Winter
By Allyson Roberts Fall is finally upon us, bringing colder temperatures and the holiday season. Fall also brings beautiful scenery—the […]
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Space Biology: The Search for Life Beyond Earth
By Sam Stadmiller Have you ever wondered if aliens are real? Well, scientists do too, and they spend lots of […]
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Science Shows it Really is Harder for Teens to Wake Up Early
By Eva Vitucci Scientists have proven that it truly is harder for teens to wake up earlier than other age […]
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To Attract or Avoid: Butterfly Wing Patterning
By Allyson Roberts Spring is finally here to stay. The weather is warming up, the sun is staying out later […]
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I just made a discovery! Now what?
By Chad Lloyd Most people have heard of the scientific method. The scientific method is the process that we use […]
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E. coli: The Bug We Love and Hate
By Yitong Li The recent E. coli outbreak is all over the news these days. These malignant bacteria can be […]
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Sailing to Mars
By Jennifer Schiller Did you ever want to go to space? Explore a distant planet and discover its secrets? Yeah, […]
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The Toxicologist
By Eva Vitucci Over 500 years ago, a man named Paracelsus stirred up the world of medicine. At that time […]
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“Y” So Different?
By Rachel Cherney While a baby is developing, it is by default, female. However, with the presence of the Y […]
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