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The BioPen and the Scientific Community

The advent of BioPens, “handheld surgical pens” that can bioprint artificial tissues for implantation, now provides surgeons with unprecedented control in correcting structural defects (1).  Rather than printing…

The Chemistry of Primes

On April 27, Professor Melanie Wood from the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave a lecture at Dartmouth. The talk was titled “The Chemistry of Primes” and focused on prime…

Finding the Most Time-Effective Exercise Routine

Exercising regularly is difficult, and people who ease off exercising primarily do so because of a lack of time (1). However, new research by scientists at McMaster University shows that…

Mark Laidre: Discovering the Coconut Crab

Coconut crabs, the largest terrestrial crab, have been studied very little because they are perceived as food and predated into scarcity. In response to the resulting lapse in…

Promising Nanoparticle-mediated Therapy Technique Aims to Alleviate Asthma

By Kevin Kang Contemporary therapies for allergy-mediated diseases like allergic asthma and food allergies are sub-optimal (1). These diseases are caused by the body’s hypersensitive reactions to otherwise…