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Can You Change Your Factory Settings?

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What Loneliness Does to Your Brain

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What STEM Fields Lack is Disability Culture

During an on-campus fire drill in her junior year, recent graduate Syreeta Nolan realized that UC San Diego, like many... 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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Looking to Biological Age for Health Maintenance: No Swimming Required

Most people are familiar with the myth that everlasting youth can be achieved by traveling to the mystical Fountain of... Read More
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Climate Change and Skincare: How the Earth’s Warming Climate Affects Human Skin

Like so many of my peers, my relationship with my skin has been complicated. My sole refuge during endless years... Read More
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The Making of a Researcher: From Pre-Med to PhD

If you study biology at UC San Diego (like yours truly), you will find that research plays a pretty big... Read More
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Scratching That Itch: The Future of Eczema Treatment

Imagine itchy, rashy skin present on just about every part of your body. Visualize being unable to properly close your... Read More
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Mitochondrial QC: Saving the Cell and Preventing Neurodegenerative Diseases

In every elementary and middle school science class, students are taught that mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell. Textbooks... Read More
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Autophagy: the Immense Benefits of Fasting

By now, it’s likely you’ve either tried or at least heard of one of the many dieting strategies that are... Read More
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Building the Brain: Stem Cells and Brain Organoids

Our brain is very complex–perhaps even more than you are aware of. The latest estimation of the number of neurons... Read More
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