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  • The COVID-19 Vaccine Explained

    The COVID-19 Vaccine Explained

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    By: Alyssa Wang Introduction The COVID-19 global pandemic was one of the deadliest outbreaks of recent history, disrupting the lives and health of every person around the world. But one technology that transformed the course of this pandemic was the mRNA vaccine, developed within the astonishingly fast period of less than a year. In today’s…

  • Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine

    Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine

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    By: Amy Hammett Introduction The term tissue engineering itself was presented back in the 1980s. It is a field of research focused on the development and creation of substitutes that could potentially replace or improve damaged tissues or whole organs within humans. This is done through the application of combining scaffolds, cells, and other biological…

  • Zooming In: A History of Nanotechnology

    Zooming In: A History of Nanotechnology

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    Engines the size of a single atom. A world map 1/1000 the size of a grain of salt. Nanobot soccer on a single grain of rice. All of these futuristic feats are now possible due to advancement in nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is a field of science that deals with the manipulation of atoms and molecules at…

  • The Arc Institute is Exploring This Complex Drug Discovery Conundrum

    The Arc Institute is Exploring This Complex Drug Discovery Conundrum

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    By: Kyra Ezikeuzor Scientists at the Arc Institute, an institution for biomedical science and technology located in Palo Alto, California, and the University of California at San Francisco have discovered findings that may establish new possibilities for a key challenge in drug discovery. That challenge is the tradeoff between a drug’s ability to travel across…