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The Advent of Genetic Testing: Cure or Curse?

March 5, 2019 7 min read
BY SHREYA SHRIRAM | SQ ONLINE REPORTER | 2018-2019   A few decades ago, the idea that one could know their risk of developing a specific medical condition would have been considered far-fetched. However, recent... Read More

The Sublime Connection of Art and Science

February 26, 2019 12 min read
The arts and the sciences have long maintained a tense relationship which has only escalated in recent decades. Over the years, many schools and institutions have cut art programs or been forced into defensive stances... Read More

Should we be PRObiotic or ANTIbiotic?

February 21, 2019 14 min read
BY ELEANOR WANG | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2018-19) Whether you’re a biology major or not, you’ve probably heard about something called the microbiome–or have at least heard of antibiotics and probiotics. The... Read More

A Glimpse into the Struggles of Women in Science

January 28, 2019 10 min read
BY ELEANOR WANG | SQ ONLINE WRITER | SQ ONLINE (2018-19) A couple weeks ago, I found myself looking up the lab website of Aviv Regev, an up-and-coming computational biologist running a successful lab at... Read More

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 in... 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

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