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When Breaking the Ice Isn’t So Simple: The Phenomenon of Flexible Ice Crystals

Caroline Conway, Physical Sciences, Summer 2021 Figure 1: Icicles like these, which formed on a house in Montreal, Canada, demonstrate the rigidity that comes to mind for most…

New Antibody-Based Treatment: Revolutionizing Allergy Medications

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…

Using Gene-Editing to Improve Breast Cancer Diagnosis

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…

Air Pollution Lowers Expected Global Lifespan

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…

Artificial Membraneless Organelle Carries Out Complex Biochemical Pathways

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…