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Blog / If fossil fuels are the problem, algae are the answer

March 5, 2020March 2, 2020 / Amanda Smythers /

The best source of renewable energy has been living in your fish tank this whole time. Here are the top 5 reasons that algae is the answer to our biofuel needs.

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biotechnology energy sources

Blog / What Causes Snoring?

March 4, 2020March 2, 2020 / Breanna Turman /

Scientists identified over 100 genes that may be associated with snoring.

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Genetics Sleep Snoring

Blog / Where is the line between life and non-life?

March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 / Rachel Cherney /

What classifies an organism as living? New classes of viruses may blur the line between what is living and what is not.

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Biology evolution gene therapy Genetics Medicine Microbiology virology

Blog / Stigler’s Law: credit where it may not be due

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 / Corban Murphey /

Have you ever done most of the work but got none of the credit? Stigler’s law of eponymy shines light on the battle between the discoverers and namesakes.

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Science history

Blog / The Science of Age Limits for Drug Use

March 2, 2020February 29, 2020 / Abigail Agoglia /

Age restrictions on the purchase of recreational drugs are continuing to strengthen. What’s the science behind this age limits, and are these measures really necessary?

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Blog / Autoimmunity and the Placenta -The Pregnancy Compensation Hypothesis

February 27, 2020February 28, 2020 / Laetitia Meyrueix /

The sex differences in autoimmune diseases have yet to be clearly understood. A new hypothesis called the pregnancy compensation hypothesis attempts to pull in many factors to better explain why we see these differences between males and females.

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Health Immune system Pregnancy

Blog / The Infamous Batman

February 24, 2020February 24, 2020 / Devina Thiono /

While COVID-19 scare is still going on, this article focuses on the bats that have started it all – Why the bats are able to withstand viruses that make humans sick?

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Blog / Global Pandemic 1918 Edition

February 20, 2020February 20, 2020 / Syed Masood / 2

I would like to show the comparison of the recent outbreaks of the coronavirus so the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918. I want the reader to see the need of public health policy and the potential outcomes when its not implemented properly

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Blog / Inequality (Un)Awareness

February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 / Manuel Galvan / 1

It seems that in this polarizing era, two things unite us: our preference for more equality and our ignorance of the scale of current inequality.

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Economics Inequality Politics Public opinion Social psychology

Blog / Hope for difficult-to-treat cancers

February 17, 2020February 18, 2020 / Danielle Chappell /

Cancer research discovery makes undruggable Ras druggable.

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Cancer drug discovery hope Medicine

Blog / Why microbes are so good at evolving

February 17, 2020February 17, 2020 / Connor LaMontagne /

How have creatures as simple as microbes managed to colonize every corner of the world, resist our weapons against them, and eat electricity? Turns out, they’re ridiculously good at evolution.

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ecology evolution Microbiology mutation populations

Blog / Looking for Life in all the Wrong Places

December 10, 2019December 10, 2019 / Gabrielle Budziszewski /

Scientists are at odds about the limits of life in the volatile terrain of Dallol, Ethiopia.

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Environmental Science Microbiology

Blog / The Chemistry Behind Holiday Cookies

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 / Erin Kober /

My article is about the chemical reactions involved with baking cookies. I walk through the major processes to explain the chemistry of cookies.

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Blog / Cancer treatment going viral

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 / Danielle Chappell /

Scientists are now using viruses to treat cancer.

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Blog / Can the Keto diet be the ‘keto’ your weight loss?

December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 / Sean Gay /

Does the keto diet work as an effective and sustainable weight loss solution?

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Food Keto diet weight loss

Blog / A Meat Alternative Beyond the “Beyond” and the “Impossible”: Lab-Cultured Meat

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 / Matthew Tsilimigras /

Plant-based meat alternatives are more popular than ever, but an extension of techniques developed in regenerative medicine have produced a potential contender with cultured meat.

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future of food

Blog / Encouraging measures in the fight against HIV

November 27, 2019November 29, 2019 / Samantha Stadmiller /

There is a preventive daily medication for HIV, have you heard of it? Click to read more about HIV PrEP, just one step in the fight to end AIDS.

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Blog / The Goodest Doggos: Canine Brain Tumor Patients Test a Treatment That Could Help Humans and Pups Alike

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019 / Kasey Skinner /

Puppers are obviously so good, but did you know that some of them are blazing the way for a new cancer-killing virus treatment in other dogs and humans? Join us on an exploration into the CANINE trial, where brave dogs are paving the way for a revolutionary understanding of brain tumors and how to get rid of them.

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