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A Spoonful of (Modified) Sugar as an Antiviral Medicine

Frankie Carr ‘22, Biological Sciences, Winter 2021 Figure 1: A negative stain transmission electron micrograph of Influenza virions. (Source: Wikimedia Common) Researchers at the University of Manchester have…

Defective Mitochondria Lead to Exhausted T Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment

Matthew Lutchko ‘23, Biological Sciences, Winter 2021 Figure: T cells (green, blue, and red) surround and prepare to kill a cancer cell (green and blue). Vesicles (shown in…

The Next Source of Antibiotics: Viruses

Frankie Carr ‘22, Biological Sciences, Winter 2021 Figure 1: A computer-generated image of a bacteriophage called a levivirus along with its mapped genome. The Lysis gene is also…

Unusual Chemistry of the Rare Element Einsteinium

Andrew Sasser, Physical Sciences, Winter 2021 One of the few things that we know about it, einsteinium has a strong luminescence because of its highly radioactive nature. Many…

Unique Evolution in Human Brain DNA

Soyeon (Sophie) Cho ’24, Biological Sciences, Winter 2021 Cover Image: In this tissue culture, an astrocyte cell is surrounded by other cells. Antibodies to the two main proteins,…