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Imbalance: breaking DNA to destroy cancer cells

Dr. Kevin Mills, a former researcher at The Jackson Laboratory and co-founder of Cyteir Therapeutics, presented a seminar on February 29th regarding the therapeutic role of genomic instability….

Annie Hoen: studying the microbiome at Dartmouth

Annie Hoen, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biomedical Data Science at the Geisel School of Medicine, has been a member of the Dartmouth family for nearly a year…

mRNA shown to play role in regulating gene expression

While scientists had hoped that the human genome project would uncover all of humanity’s biological secrets, new findings regarding gene expression continue to make the field of genetics…

A brief history of deep sea exploration

 What Do We Really Know? Scientists know more about the surface of the moon than the depths of the oceans. Oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth, but…

Deep in transportation

Past Visions of Transportation and Communication In this day and age, instant messaging really is instantaneous; it only takes minutes to send data from Mars to Earth (1)….