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ARPA-H: “Bringing the DARPA Attitude to Healthcare.”

Valentina Fernandez, Biological Sciences, Fall 2021 Figure: President Joe Biden endorses ARPA-H, with hopes that this new division of the NIH will “end cancer as we know it.”…

Neutrophils and their NETs

Frankie Carr, Biological Sciences, Summer 2021 Figure: A neutrophil (yellow) ejecting a NET (green) to capture invading bacteria (purple) that are attacking a red blood cell (orange). Image…

Gestational transcriptomic and epigenetic changes initiate the fetal-to-adult transition of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in mice

Justin Chong, Biological Sciences, Summer 2021 Figure: A hematopoietic stem cell can give rise to all hematopoietic lineages, such as myeloid, lymphoid and erythroid outputs. Image Source: Wikimedia…

Touchscreen Technology: The Next Contamination Sensor?

Callie Moody, Biological Sciences, Summer 2021 Figure: A small water treatment facility commonly found in higher-resource communities Image Source: Wikimedia Commons For over a quarter of the world’s…

Rethinking Junk DNA: The Vital Role DNA Repeats Play in Cancer and Aging

Caroline Conway, Biological Sciences, Summer 2021 When the Human Genome Project concluded, scientists were left with the full human DNA sequence and many revelations. One revelation was the…