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Over-the-Counter Decongestants: A Quick Fix, or a Money Sink?

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The State of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet

Amidst current climate change discussions, NASA released a particularly alarming article regarding the Western Antarctic ice sheet. Read More
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Robots in Disguise: Nanoparticles as Red Blood Cells

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Eliminating the need for foreign liver transplants

What if there was no need for liver organ donors? Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a way to synthesize liver cells from fat cells extracted from the human body. Read More
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New Breakthrough Tackles the Infertility Issue

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How To Be A Student Lab Rat

At first, I was underwhelmed; it just looked like eight horizontal lines on different sections of the screen. But when the operator told me to focus on one line and move my eyes left and right, the line dramatically shifted up and down. Then my focus shifted to another line that oscillated every time I blinked, and finally, when I ground my teeth, I saw every line on the screen scatter into clouds of multicolored dots all blending together. Read More
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