Tag: Technology
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CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
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By: Amy Hammett Introduction CRISPR, which is short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, was originally discovered by Ishino from Osaka University in Japan in 1987 in the bacteria Escherichia coli. However, during the time of its discovery, it was difficult to study these particular DNA fragments, which meant their understanding of its significance…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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An Analysis of the Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Epidemic
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By: Jessica Wang Humans today are “[living] in a time of extraordinarily fast technological change” (Roser, 2023). With the aid of technology, society has become “far richer in 2020 than it was in 2010” (Chace, 2019). The past decade has been characterized by the widespread use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and…
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