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Author: Bailey Peck

Bailey is a 4th year doctoral candidate in the Genetics & Molecular Biology Program at UNC. She is investigating the role of non-coding RNAs, including miRNAs, in regulating proliferation and differentiation of the intestinal epithelium as part of her thesis work in the Sethupathy Lab. She previously held the position of SWAC Outreach Coordinator, managing the efforts of SWAC’s social media presence. Bailey is the current Vice President and Chief Editor of SWAC.

Blog / Statistically significant insults for the soul: p < 0.05

March 8, 2016March 9, 2016 / Bailey Peck /

Author’s forward There are days in which a scientist finds herself needing to express her “mean genes.” When an experimental control fails, when Reviewer 3 sinks a paper, when someone…

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Graduate School Science Fail

Blog / Nightmares always tell: Oral exam dreams

December 26, 2015February 16, 2016 / Bailey Peck /

Graduate school preliminary exams are dreaded, anticipated, and for me, thankfully over. In the days before taking my second preliminary exam, my oral qualifying exam, I self-evaluated and determined that…

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Graduate School

Blog / The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine: Kiss me for science!

October 20, 2015February 16, 2016 / Bailey Peck /

This year’s Nobel Prizes in Medicine were awarded to William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura, and Youyou Tu whose work to develop novel therapies for the treatment of globally devastating parasitic…

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Everyday Questions Immunology Science News Scientist Weird Science

Blog / Canis lupus familiaris gestation and postnatal development

July 8, 2015July 20, 2016 / Bailey Peck /

Puppies are cute. We don’t often get to see them in utero, but now we can, thanks to this sweet radiograph courtesy of my mom, a Labradoodle breeder at Red…

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Everyday Questions Scientific Imaging

Blog / Warm as a fish in the sea

May 21, 2015January 25, 2016 / Bailey Peck /

No one can accuse the opah, Lampris guttatus, of being a cold fish. Nor could one call it a cold-hearted fish. Even if it were the most emotionally distant and…

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Science News

Blog / Naturally GMO, the sweet potato way

May 6, 2015January 28, 2016 / Bailey Peck /

Contrary to scientific consensus, the public at large continues to harbor concerns over the consumption of foods containing  Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs. To make matters worse, scientists have now…

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Genetics Not so Frivolous

Blog / Zombieism’s closely related cousin

April 29, 2015January 27, 2016 / Bailey Peck /

Most people would presume the safest place to survive the imminent Zombie apocalypse would be in an underground bunker. This erroneous conclusion has led to the untimely death of a…

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Cancer Genetics Not so Frivolous Weird Science

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