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Author: Bree Iskandar

Blog / How a Scientist Found the Value of Science Communication: A Personal Testimony

October 14, 2022 / Bree Iskandar /

A short story on how a PhD student found the value of science communication.

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Blog / A Carbon-Carbon Cross Coupling, as Told Through a Modern Romance

August 3, 2022August 4, 2022 / Bree Iskandar /

I recently performed a chemical reaction where I made two carbon atoms from different compounds join to form a new chemical bond. Why is that significant? I explain through the lens of something many of us can understand—love and relationships.

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Blog / Architectural antidotes: the science of how the built hospital environment influences human health

April 5, 2022 / Bree Iskandar /

Drugs aren’t the only thing that help us recover when we’re hospitalized – as it turns out, the architectural designs of hospitals can significantly influence patient outcomes as well.

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Blog / Enigmatology & the Art of Puzzle Design

November 5, 2021 / Bree Iskandar /

The large timer on the wall reads 01:45 as I briefly glance up from a board full of lights and buttons. This light board is presumably the last puzzle that,…

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Blog / The Fasted and Curious: Purported Benefits and Risks of Intermittent and Prolonged Fasting

August 5, 2021 / Bree Iskandar / 1

Intermittent fasting is gaining popularity as a diet and wellness trend. Are there any real benefits to it?

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Blog / Debunking MSG & “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome”

March 24, 2021 / Bree Iskandar / 1

Salt is used to season virtually everything – from the simple scrambled eggs made five minutes before your first Zoom meeting, to an entire pot roast that took the whole…

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Blog / An Ode to Attenborough

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 / Bree Iskandar /

A poem on the prolific and iconic natural historian, Sir David Attenborough.

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Blog / An Opinion on the Angewandte Chemie Scandal from a Female, POC, Doctoral Student

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 / Bree Iskandar / 2

A recent article published by an international chemistry journal faced huge backlash for its stance on workplace diversity and the grad student/PI relationship. Here, I unpack some of the issues, including racism in chemistry, that this article brought to light.

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Blog / What to Expect when Running the Gauntlet of Drug Development

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 / Bree Iskandar /

A guide to understanding what it really means when you hear that a developing drug is “in the pipeline”.

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Blog / First the Moon, Now Mars: A Look at Rocket Science in Reaching the Red Planet

July 29, 2019September 29, 2019 / Bree Iskandar /

Americans reached the moon 50 years ago – what do the next 50 years look like for space exploration and travel?

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Blog / Could we rewrite the instructions for life?

April 7, 2019April 19, 2019 / Bree Iskandar /

Every living thing on earth is made from a genetic sequence that contains four different nitrogenous bases – adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thymine (T). You can think…

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