By Brianna Almeida Dr. Luciana Bachega is a postdoctoral associate (postdoc) from Brazil in the Hawkes lab at North Carolina […]
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The Legacy of the Calutron Girls
by Macy Lynn Osborne-Frazier If you watched or heard about the 2024 Oscars, you may know that the movie Oppenheimer […]
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Barbara McClintock and the Jumping Genes!
by Margaret Dedloff Barbara McClintock was a geneticist who studied the genetics of maize, also known as corn (Figure 1). […]
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70 Years of the Double Helix: Rosalind Franklin and the Structure of DNA
by Rami Major From crime shows tracking down killers to the action movie Rampage with gene-edited predators, DNA and scientific […]
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Alexander Fleming: El Padre de los Antibióticos
Publicado en Abril 14, 2022 por Nicole Gadda (English Version) Traducido por Maria X. Cardenas, PhD Muchos hemos tomado antibióticos […]
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Odessa Goudy
By Mikayla Feldbauer This interview was conducted in Fall 2022. On the date of publication, Odessa Goudy had just earned […]
Continue readingAlexander Fleming: The Father of Antibiotics
by Nicole Gadda Many of us have taken antibiotics for common bacterial infections like strep throat or pneumonia, but have […]
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The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology
By Riya Gohil The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology One of my favorite analogies of learning is the expanding circle […]
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Florence: La Dama de la Lámpara
Escrito y Traducido por Regina F. Fernandez Version in English Quién es Florence Nightingale? Florence Nightingale nació en 1820 en […]
Continue readingFlorence: The Lady with the Lamp
By Regina F. Fernandez Versión en Español Who is Florence Nightingale? Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 in Florence, Italy. […]
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Gregor Mendel: The Father of Genetics
By Madison Williams Do you ever wonder how scientists can predict that parents will pass a disease on to their […]
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Hidden Figures in Physics – Carolyn Parker
By Zoe Terwilliger Carolyn Parker was the first African American woman to receive a graduate degree in physics. Carolyn Parker […]
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Meet Dr. Mae Jemison
By Carolina Herrera Doctor, engineer, and NASA astronaut, Dr. Mae Jemison has always reached for the stars. Dr. Jemison became the […]
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Percy Julian
By Jenna Beam When I started researching Percy Julian for this article, I was amazed by the extent of his […]
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Meet Edward Jenner
By Jenna Beam Meet Edward Jenner, a physician from way back in the early 1800’s. Why do we care about […]
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