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Do we really have the cure for HIV?

December 13, 2019February 16, 2021 admin

By Christian Agosto-Burgos The Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) emerged around 1920 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, probably as the […]

Les Measle-ables

December 5, 2019February 24, 2021 admin

By Jenna Beam If you’ve been alive at any point since 1998, chances are you’ve heard about the anti-vax movement. […]

Figs and Wasps: Name a More Iconic Duo

November 21, 2019February 16, 2021 admin

By Lane Scher In 350 BC, Aristotle wrote about wasps crawling out of ripe figs and then tunneling into the […]

CAR T-cell therapy

November 14, 2019July 23, 2023 admin

By Devina Thiono Versión en Español In 2019, around 1.8 million new cancer cases are expected in the U.S. 12,000 […]

Vaping: An Attack on Your Immune System

November 8, 2019February 16, 2021 admin

By Carolina Herrera Vaping is safer than smoking tobacco you say? Tobacco smoking in the U.S. has decreased, however due […]

Curing the Common Cold

October 31, 2019January 31, 2021 admin

By Emma Joy Goldberg It’s that time of year again. The time of year when, one by one, your friends, […]

Are you stronger than a Shrimp?

October 24, 2019February 16, 2021 admin

By Rachel Cherney Earth is filled with some incredible sights and unbelievable creatures. You may have heard of the great […]

The Battle Against the Bugs: Antibiotic Tolerance and Staph infections

October 10, 2019July 23, 2023 admin

By Jenna Beam Versión en Español Let’s talk about Staph. If you haven’t had a Staph infection, you probably know […]

Making the World of Plastics More Transparent

May 2, 2019January 31, 2021 admin

By Candice Crilly Derived from the Greek word plastikos meaning “capable of being shaped or molded”, plastic is an umbrella […]

Herd Immunity

April 18, 2019February 16, 2021 admin

By Tim Daugird What if I told you that if enough people got a flu shot, we could all eliminate […]

The Human Genome Project: More Questions than Answers

April 11, 2019February 16, 2021 admin

By Laetitia Meyrueix The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an amazing endeavor to map the full human genome. A genome […]

Autoimmunity: How T Cells Go Wrong

April 4, 2019February 16, 2021 admin

By Christian Agosto-Burgos Every single day we are all exposed to thousands of nasty and tiny pathogens, such as bacteria, […]

CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing of Humans – Future or Fiction?

March 28, 2019January 31, 2021 admin

By Dominika Trzilova You’re half of your mom and half of your dad. You get different characteristics from each parent, many […]

Blood

March 23, 2019January 31, 2021 admin

By Eva Vitucci Blood. It makes some people squeamish, some people faint, but it makes all of us alive. Blood […]

The Other Humans

March 13, 2019February 16, 2021 admin

By Rachel Cherney “Where did we come from?” “Why are we here?” These questions have been asked since the dawn […]

Sonic the Hedgehog is Not Just for Video Games

March 7, 2019January 31, 2021 admin

By Julia DiFiore Much like Fortnite today, Sonic the Hedgehog was everywhere in the early 1990s – from video games […]

Forest Fire Flames and Smoke: Double the Trouble

February 7, 2019February 16, 2021 admin

By Eva Vitucci As of Friday November 16, 2018, California was home to the three most polluted cities in the […]

Directing the Immune System Towards Cancer

January 31, 2019February 16, 2021 admin

By Clare Gyorke We’ve all heard of the big bad Cancer. There are many types of cancer, and cancer – […]

WinSPIRE 2019 – Call for Applications

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January 23, 2019February 14, 2021 admin

WinSPIRE (Women in Science Promoting Inclusion in Research Experiences) is a six-week-long paid summer internship program that pairs high school women […]

The Bionic Mushroom

November 29, 2018February 16, 2021 admin

By Rachel Cherney A fungus among us can now produce electricity with the help of cyanobacteria – a certain species […]