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Can You Change Your Factory Settings?

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What Loneliness Does to Your Brain

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Stress: How Our Body Responds to Pressure

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Partly Human: How Biohybrid Fish Are Brought To Life With Human Stem Cells

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LRRK2: the Two-Faced Janus of Parkinson’s Disease

The Reck-Peterson, Villa and Leschziner groups at UC San Diego discovered that the LRRK2 protein, a mutated subset in Parkinson’s... Read More
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A Personal Look into the Future of Diabetic Medicine

The fight against one of the nation’s leading diseases has just gotten a lot more personal. Diabetes mellitus is a... Read More
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The Evolution of Mental Illness

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Case for Music

In all of my years of schooling, Mr. B, my math teacher throughout my middle school years influenced me the... Read More
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Breaking Beyond Addiction

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Slice, Sizzle, Smell

Ever since I started living by myself in college, I’ve found joy in cooking. In fact, it has transformed into... Read More
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How Social Mirroring is Fundamentally Integrated in Our Lives

Ever since I could remember, I was taught to avoid copying other people at all costs. However, what if I... Read More
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2021 Winning Photos

Congratulations to our winners; your photos will be featured in Saltman Quarterly Volume 18 2020—2021. Thank you to everyone for... Read More
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In It For the Long Haul: Persisting COVID

Like a prism of glass held up to light, our perception of the world around us is largely defined by... Read More
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