You’re Gonna Need a Better Water Filter: Giardia, Giardiasis, and Its Lasting Effects December 10, 2021 9 min readThe Jaws theme song intensifies as you swim through the pool. Panicked, you look around, scanning for any bloodthirsty animals... Read More
When Cows Go Mad: An Overview of Prion Protein Diseases December 10, 2021 8 min readIn 1732, a shepherd in Spain noticed a sheep compulsively scraping against a fence, a behavior that soon spread throughout... Read More
Can Infections Cause Alzheimer’s Disease? December 9, 2021 7 min readIn 2019, immunologist Leslie Norins offered to award one million dollars of his own money to any scientist who could... Read More
The Curious Case of Mosquito Bites November 17, 2021 7 min readThe leaves crackled under the soles of our shoes as we made our way from one part of the island... Read More
The more we sea, the less we know November 12, 2021 13 min readUntil recently, it was commonly assumed within the scientific community that the deepest parts of the ocean were lifeless voids... Read More
What STEM Fields Lack is Disability Culture November 12, 2021 18 min readDuring an on-campus fire drill in her junior year, recent graduate Syreeta Nolan realized that UC San Diego, like many... Read More
How Dracula Deals With the Flu November 9, 2021 7 min readCOVID-19, Ebola, MERS, and SARS are all deadly viruses in the limelight of contemporary research that all have one thing... Read More
Looking to Biological Age for Health Maintenance: No Swimming Required November 2, 2021 8 min readMost people are familiar with the myth that everlasting youth can be achieved by traveling to the mystical Fountain of... Read More
Climate Change and Skincare: How the Earth’s Warming Climate Affects Human Skin October 29, 2021 9 min readLike so many of my peers, my relationship with my skin has been complicated. My sole refuge during endless years... Read More