By Afton Widdershins If you took a biology class during your school years, you may be familiar with the concept of evolution, the idea that living things acquire changes that they can pass on to their offspring. These changes begin as tiny, random mutations acquired as genetic information is copied imperfectly from parent to offspring. … Continue reading What Does Evolution Teach Us About Medicine?
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Bring the Beat In: How the Brain Processes Binaural Beats and the Potential Cognitive Benefits the Beats Provide
By Gaelyn Lyons Finals are just around the corner, and you're scrambling to study for that last exam. You're probably stressed out, having a hard time focusing, and *most likely* losing sleep. First, let's take a deep breath. Breathe in. Breathe out. How are you feeling? Are you still stressed? Then let me tell you … Continue reading Bring the Beat In: How the Brain Processes Binaural Beats and the Potential Cognitive Benefits the Beats Provide
A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work
By Jessica Heebner There was a time in the United States where there was very little standing in the way of you being exploited as a worker. There was no OSHA, no minimum wage, no age restrictions, and certainly no worker’s compensation for injuries received on the job. If you were injured and could no … Continue reading A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work
Aspirin and Its Evolution Across Decades
By Hannah Johnson Figure 1: A box of aspirin.[6] When you have a headache, a fever, or inflammation, the usual response to obtain relief would be taking an NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug), such as aspirin or ibuprofen. While these are common over the counter (OTC) drugs that are often found in a person’s medicine cabinet, … Continue reading Aspirin and Its Evolution Across Decades
Buyers Beware: The Problem with Pinkwashing
By Carli King Every October, retail stores are plastered in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month – from food packaging, to clothing, to hardware, to home appliances. But what percentage of the proceeds from pink purchases actually go directly to breast cancer patients or towards breast cancer research? The answer to this question remains unclear … Continue reading Buyers Beware: The Problem with Pinkwashing
What is love?
By Shivani Godbole Source: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/cartoon-brain-lifting-dumbbells-vector-gm1208760136-349508008 “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, scene 1, lines 240 – 241 Shakespeare did indeed get it right. Love is a convoluted ‘mind-game’. If I were to describe love as a scientist, I would … Continue reading What is love?
The Real Cost Of A Sustainable Vehicle
By Savannah Marshall In the US, transportation is responsible for about 25% of the country’s yearly greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.1 The large contribution of vehicular emissions to climate change has led to the popularization of tailpipe emission-free electric vehicles (EVs) in the past few decades. With the push to eventually transition the planet from gasoline … Continue reading The Real Cost Of A Sustainable Vehicle
An Untapped Gold Mine of Information; Detecting Structural Variants with Bionano Optical Mapping
By Laura Budurlean All cancers exhibit some degree of genomic instability, but what if we’ve been severely underestimating how much instability there really is? Structural variants (SVs) are a hallmark of human cancer and encompass insertions, deletions, duplications, inversions, translocations, and copy number variations (Figure 1). These are all mutations that can affect large sections … Continue reading An Untapped Gold Mine of Information; Detecting Structural Variants with Bionano Optical Mapping
Dos and Dont’s of Looking for Jobs and Postdocs
By Mariam Melkumyan It's never too early for graduate students or postdocs to start thinking about future careers and what steps need to be taken to best prepare for them (Figure 1). However, working on the next steps in your career can be very stressful, as you may not know what you want to do, … Continue reading Dos and Dont’s of Looking for Jobs and Postdocs
Formal Proof Assistants: More Than Just A Sanity Check
By Mike Sha Mathematics is the study of symmetry, patterns, and numbers. Professional mathematicians spend most of their time thinking and proving facts about these abstract concepts. Einstein used differential geometry to formulate his theory of gravity. Machine learning researchers use differential geometry and representation theory to design effective neural networks. At the heart of … Continue reading Formal Proof Assistants: More Than Just A Sanity Check
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