Category: Health and Disease

Sunscreen: Armor for the Skin

April 23, 2020January 30, 2021 admin

By Yogitha Chareddy Spring is in full bloom and the warming weather is encouraging North Carolinians to leave their cozy […]

Sleep Paralysis

April 13, 2020February 16, 2021 admin

By Rachel Cherney Have you ever woken up to see a shadow in your room, perhaps whispering your name? You […]

Meet Edward Jenner

April 2, 2020February 16, 2021 admin

By Jenna Beam Meet Edward Jenner, a physician from way back in the early 1800’s. Why do we care about […]

Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands

March 19, 2020February 16, 2021 admin

By Devina Thiono With Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) still going strong, we’re hearing the phrase “wash your hands” more frequently. […]

What the heck is the spleen?

February 21, 2020February 16, 2021 admin

By Jenna Beam Let’s level with each other – everyone has a spleen, everyone knows that everyone has a spleen, […]

Jumping Coronavirus

February 13, 2020February 16, 2021 admin

By Devina Thiono Earlier this year, there was a pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China. It was later found that the […]

Future of Organ Transplants

January 9, 2020February 13, 2021 admin

By Rachel Cherney If you’ve received your driver’s license, chances are you had the option to decide to donate your […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 – […]