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Succulents: Aesthetic Aspirations

BY MADISON RAE | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2017-18)   Between UC San Diego’s student organizations’ sales pitches... Read More
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Over-the-Counter Decongestants: A Quick Fix, or a Money Sink?

By Sharada Saraf | SQ Online Reporter | SQ Online (2016-2017) ________________________________________________________________________________________ Every UCSD student knows the terror of waking... Read More
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Taking a Closer Look at the Keto Diet and its Implications

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in healthy eating and a heightened consciousness of one’s food choices.... Read More
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AMPK Gene Might Delay Aging

Eternal youth is a concept dreamt about by many and disfavored by few. From Peter Pan’s journeys in Neverland to Bob Dylan’s 1973 hit track, pop culture has romanticized the idea of youth lasting for decades. Recently, researchers at UCLA have taken a small step toward bringing this timeless fantasy to life. Read More
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New Perspectives on Eye Transplants

Exchanging eyeballs has been the stuff of scary stories and gory science fiction for centuries. The cultural perception of these legends, however, makes it easy to gloss over the large populations that actually undergo these procedures. Read More
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How Dracula Deals With the Flu

COVID-19, Ebola, MERS, and SARS are all deadly viruses in the limelight of contemporary research that all have one thing... Read More
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Interdisciplinary Innovations: Engineering Solutions Against Cancer

By Arushi Atluri | UTS Staff Writer | SQ Online (2014-15)   As both students and professional researchers make their... Read More
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1 oz. of Beef vs. 30 Minute Showers: A Battle Royale for California’s Water Supply

“Take shorter showers!” “Don’t wash your car or water your grass!” How many times have you heard these ever-increasing aphorisms in our society? Water drought has become a serious problem in many places around the world, and it is slowly becoming a more dire and severe problem in California as well. Read More
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AN INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR JAMES COOKE

By Lauren Stiene | Online Reporter | SQ Online 2016-2017 For those of you taking Human Physiology this quarter, you... Read More
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