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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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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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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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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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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“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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Chlamydia is Sneaky
By Clare Gyorke I’m sure many of you remember the movie, “Mean Girls“ and have heard Coach Carr’s famous caution […]
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Our Unbeliverable Liver
By Eva Vitucci The human body is an amazing entity, and as can be seen by watching the recent Winter […]
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The Flu and You
By Christina Marvin If you have not come down with the flu yourself, you most likely have had a friend […]
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See the Rainbow?
By Jennifer Schiller When I was young, there was this one kid in my class who had all the colors […]
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Dietary Supplements: #NewYearNewMe or #NewYearNewLiver ?
By Eva Vitucci As 2018 makes its grand entrance, so does the ever trending hashtag #NewYearNewMe. This hashtag is frequently […]
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Synesthesia: Taste the Rainbow
By Jennifer Schiller Close your eyes and remember your breakfast. How did it feel? Was it slimy scrambled eggs? Was […]
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Wet Hair, Colds, and the Truth About Viruses
By Michelle Engle As kids, we are often told, “don’t go outside with wet hair, you will catch a cold!” […]
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The Secret Behind How We Choose Our Food
By Yitong Li When it comes to food choice, it’s almost an instinctual question: sometimes I want some chicken and […]
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Why the Flu Shot Rocks
By Clare Gyorke When I say the flu sucks, I’m not talking about the cold you get every year – […]
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The Secrets of Our DNA
By Eva Vitucci The human body is composed of trillions of cells – these cells make up your skin, hair, […]
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Thank Mom for Your Mitochondria
By Michelle Engle We inherit ½ of our chromosomal DNA from our mothers, but that’s not the only thing we […]
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