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Vaccination in the 21st Century

January 23, 2019 11 min read

Vaccines are a complex innovation in disease prevention. Their widespread administration, both in the past and in contemporary society, has led to the eradication of diseases like smallpox and the near-eradication of ailments such as... Read More

Could the Future of Neuroscience be Grown in a Dish?

January 14, 2019 5 min read

BY ARJUNE NIBBER | SQ ONLINE REPORTER | 2018-2019 For biomedical researchers and physicians, the most complicated and at times frustrating questions are those concerning the human brain. The brain remains one of the... Read More

Made In La Jolla: UC San Diego’s Contributions to Research Around the World

November 21, 2018 6 min read

BY ARJUNE NIBBER | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2018-19) Research biologists are hard at work in laboratories all over the world, performing carefully constructed experiments to produce answers for longstanding questions about life,... Read More

Heat rises, but carbon sinks: The role of the carbon cycle in climate change

October 12, 2018 6 min read

Fig 1. Phaeodaria, as depicted above, play a key role in the global carbon cycle (Source) With heated debate currently taking place about global warming, several scientists are expressing their concern about the rise... Read More

Nanorobots to the Rescue: The Fight Against Superbugs

October 10, 2018 4 min read

BY ARJUNE NIBBER | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2018-19) Hospitals and clinics across the world have to contend with a disturbing phenomenon — infections that were once cured with conventional courses of antibiotics... Read More

Nature and Nurture: How Culture and the Gene Pool are Connected

July 10, 2018 5 min read

BY MAYA GOPALAKRISHNAN | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2017-18) There are two kinds of students: STEM and non-STEM. These adversaries have been treated as the Batman and Joker, the Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader,... Read More

Fear Factor: Foodborne Illness

July 5, 2018 6 min read

BY MADISON RAE | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2017-18) The middle of April 2018 saw major news headlines filled with panic-inducing warnings about contaminated romaine lettuce. Reports of hospitalizations, kidney failure and even death circulated;... Read More

A Tale of Two Cities: Accumulation of Rare Eye Cancer Cases Under Investigation

July 3, 2018 8 min read

BY LAUREN BRUMAGE | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2017-18) Public health officials are investigating a medical mystery that has spanned nearly two decades in Auburn, Alabama and Huntersville, North Carolina. Over 50 people in... Read More

Tardigrades: Testing the Limits of Space Travel

May 24, 2018 4 min read

EMMA HUIE | UTS WRITER | SALTMAN QUARTERLY 17-18 In 2016, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported a record-breaking 18,300 applications from aspiring astronauts (NASA). It may be surprising that so many people seem... Read More