By Anna Brinks ’21 According to the CDC, more than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies and 25 million have asthma.1,2 A Nature Communications article published on January 2nd, 2018 reported a new antibody treatment that could revolutionize allergy and asthma medication and allow the development of more effective drugs … Continue reading
By Mien Nguyen ’22 A research study published recently at the University of Washington School of Medicine led by Greg Findlay has discovered close to 4,000 distinct mutations in the human BRCA1 gene, which is thought to be a primary cause of breast cancer. The objective of this study was … Continue reading
By Ryan K. Kilgallon A recent study conducted at the Cockrell School of Engineering at University of Texas at Austin demonstrated that air pollution can shorten human life expectancy by over a year.1 Roughly half of the population of the United States alone lives in areas with dangerously-high levels of … Continue reading
By Chengzi Guo ‘22 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have recently created a novel synthetic organelle system made of localized membraneless solutions that can carry out biological processes. It has long been assumed that the compartmentalization of cells functions to create chemical environments that facilitate and regulate crucial … Continue reading
By Ed Buckser ‘21 Robot teachers may sound like impossible science fiction, but researchers at the University of Plymouth believe that they could one day become a reality. A recent study conducted by Professors Anna Volmer and Tony Belpaeme found that children’s opinions may be easily influenced by pressure from … Continue reading
By Sanjena Venkatesh ‘21 Over the past few weeks, discourse surrounding 3D printing technology has been limited to the controversy of 3D-printed guns. However, perhaps unknown to many, a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota has for the first time successfully printed a 3D image-sensing array onto a curved … Continue reading