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Jan 25, 2016

Review: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

By Emily Ashbolt, Biomedical Physics, 2017

If you are seeking to be both inspired and incredibly humbled by your insignificance, there are a lot of things you can do, but few in my experience accomplish this as well…

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Jan 21, 2016

Progress on Parkinson’s

By Alexis Stefano, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2017

At first glance, Parkinson’s disease and Chronic Myelogenous leukemia (CML) seem to have nothing in common. One is a neurodegenerative disease that causes a patient to experience tremors and loss of cognitive…

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Jan 22, 2016

Profile of Professor Lee Makowski

By Sam LaRussa

Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and is currently affecting somewhere around five million Americans. Despite its prevalence, very little is known biochemically about the nature of…

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Jan 27, 2016

HIV, AIDS, and How PrEP Can Help

By Shannon Jones, Marine Biology, 2016

In Issue 12, Hessu Kim reported on a new method for the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Since 2011, the method discussed has come into general practice. For our retrospective issue, all of us at NUSci thought that…

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Jan 29, 2016

Great Scott! How Accurately Back to the Future Part II Predicted the World We Live In

By Katie Hudson, Marine Biology, 2017

On Wednesday October 21, 2015, Marty McFly arrived from the distant past of 1985 to a world of flying cars, hoverboards…

February 2016

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