Milasen: The Drug Designed for Only One Person
By Natalie Bratset – Is patient-customized medicine the way of the future? Let’s dive into a groundbreaking “N-of-1” study and find out!
Who Owns CRISPR?
By Natalie Bratset – A fierce battle between two big Universities is underway over the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology. But who really owns “the genetic scissors”?
Race and Genetics: The Discussion Continues
Do genetic test results actually mean anything?? This was the question in my head after my professor suggested the answer was “no” offhand in a lecture for the class I was taking: The History of Capitalism (which I do recommend, if it’s taught again). I love both science and the humanities. But I’ve come to discover how different the two […]
Rose Synthesis
A rose unfolds, unravels and blooms Days and nights waltz quickly, a shuffling one, two Past the artist child’s eyes They glow- In rivers of golds and bursts of green the eyes of the little one grow With fascination the rose unfolds to reveal everything- Everything that we are – in it beauty In it jealousy and greed The thoughts […]
Radiation resistance?
As I write my genetics lab report while listening to Imagine Dragon’s Radioactive for perhaps the 88th time on the radio, I contemplate whether people can really be radioactive. Wikipedia tells me yes– we earthlings indeed radiate some gamma rays thanks to a miniscule amount of naturally present Potassium-40 in our bodies. Some of this we get from bananas. But […]
We love you Jerry Seinfeld
context for this post: http://youtu.be/ZB39jT0qq3Y Science is ruining my life. I came to this conclusion the same way I rationale all my life philosophies: partially drunk and alone in my bed, unable to sleep at three in the morning. Three a.m. is a majestic time because I’m not as inebriated as the hours prior and the sheer exhaustion makes for […]