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Aug 10, 20212 min read

Making CRISP(R) Edits

By Catherine Qiu Introducing CRISPR Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), named after how its genes appear in...

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Aug 5, 20213 min read

Heart Attacks

By Sanam Marjan What is a heart attack? A heart attack, also known as myocardial infarction, occurs when the heart muscle does not...

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Jul 27, 20211 min read

Plastic Surgery and Psychology

By Sanam Marjan Origin of plastic surgery: Facial reconstruction surgery dates back to 800 BC. In India, Sushruta (also known as the...

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Jul 19, 20213 min read

What is Cholesterol?

By Ella Kang Cholesterol is a waxy type of fat or lipid-like substance which moves throughout the body blood. Chemically, it is an...

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Jul 17, 20213 min read

Different COVID Tests

By Anoushka Ghosh COVID-19 is unmistakably one of the deadliest viruses that have plagued the world. In fear, we are all shoved into the...

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Jul 15, 20213 min read

Fun Facts About the Human Body

By Ella Kang Let’s take a look at how amazing - and a little freaky - our bodies are! Messages from the human brain move at speeds of up...

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May 19, 20213 min read

All About Human Cloning

By Ella Kang How would you feel about cloning yourself? Taking the nucleus of your cell, putting it into an egg, and then developing a...

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Apr 8, 20213 min read

4 Types of Membrane Transport

By Ella Kang Cells are the basic units of all organisms, everything is made up of cells. The movement of different cell particles across...

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Mar 26, 20212 min read

Molecular Biology

By Ella Kang Molecular Biology refers to the branch of biology that studies the molecular basis of all biological activities. Because...

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Feb 19, 20212 min read

Post-COVID Syndrome

By Lucine Avanesian COVID-19 can lead to serious diseases that can take weeks to overcome. But some patients have symptoms that persist...

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Jan 3, 20212 min read

Eye Strain

By Charlotte Lew The switch from in-person to online learning this year has caused tremendous mental stress on both the students and the...

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Dec 9, 20202 min read

Listening to Music and Studying

By Charlotte Lew People listen to music 24/7. No matter if it’s from the radio or our own playlists, music fills up the emptiness in our...

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Nov 5, 20202 min read

Procrastination

Ah, procrastination. Both a curse and a blessing. There’s no running away from the fact that we all procrastinate. It’s satisfying to put...

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Oct 26, 20202 min read

Psychological Trauma

Psychological trauma defines the distress experienced by the psyche after any traumatic event. What defines these traumatic events?...

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Sep 27, 20201 min read

Can HIV Cause Cancer?

The title sounds a bit nonsensical. It might make sense that a virus that causes a suppressed immune system would allow opportunistic...

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Sep 7, 20202 min read

Immunotherapy

By Rizak Makkar Immunotherapy is using your body's own immune system to fight cancer. There are couple of different ways to do it, one,...

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Aug 27, 20201 min read

Finding a Virus Receptor

Virology is an obscure and perplexing subject at first. However, once you start putting things in perspective, the pieces start coming...

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Aug 15, 20202 min read

Downside of Denim

When in doubt, wear denim! I am sure all of us have heard this quite at least once. Denim... one of the most worn and sought after...

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Aug 9, 20202 min read

The Cell Cycle: Interphase

The cell cycle is crucial for life. Without it, we would just be a single cell with no function or purpose! 10% of this cycle is a...

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Aug 8, 20202 min read

Language Learning Enhancement

By Anthony Han Everyone’s wanted to learn a new language at some point. Apps like Duolingo and foreign language classes in school are...

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