When some people (including myself, at one point) think of the worlds of medicine and physics, they see them as distinctly different spheres with very little commonality. Medicine is often associated with rapidly-expanding advancements in genetics and genomics, experimental findings in pathophysiology, as well as the constant testing of new candidates with potential for pharmaceutical […]
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If it were not for the creativity and ingenuity of thousands upon thousands of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, our society would lag far behind what we have today, both technologically and in concrete knowledge. Creativity is the main component of what has allowed biological research to prosper throughout the years: scientists have been able to […]
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Genetics and genomics are constantly advancing branches of biology, and society’s current knowledge of genetics traces its roots back to the mid-19th century with the works of Gregor Mendel—the “father of modern genetics.” The purpose of genetics research is to study the human genome to pinpoint the environmental factors and genes that contribute to the […]
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Type 2 diabetes is a condition in which individuals face trouble in regulating and using glucose in their bodies, causing the glucose to over-accumulate. Type 2 diabetes thus causes pancreatic cells to produce significant excess insulin, which then causes blood sugar to rise as the pancreas tries to keep up with the large amount of […]
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Did you know that G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) comprise approximately 800 genes, corresponding to 2% of the human genome? G protein-coupled receptors are transmembrane domain receptor proteins and are responsible for allowing communication between cells, such as when motor neurons release a chemical message picked up by a muscle fiber that signals the muscle fiber […]
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Did you know that G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) comprise approximately 800 genes, corresponding to 2% of the human genome? G protein-coupled receptors are transmembrane domain receptor proteins and are responsible for allowing communication between cells, such as when motor neurons release a chemical message picked up by a muscle fiber that signals the muscle fiber […]
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World War II was indubitably the largest and most devastating worldwide conflict known to man. It consumed the lives of 70 to 85 million people. Following World War II, the world made significant steps in human rights via acts such as the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Some of the products of World War […]
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Democratic President Harry S. Truman once said in his speech to the people of the United States of America on the deployment of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima: “We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city. We shall destroy their docks, their […]
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Mathematics is the language of God, for it is the science of how the natural world functions, how it is structured, and how it evolves and changes over time, whether that be through understanding gravity, how populations of organisms are altered over time, or how various chemicals react with one another. A vast quantity of […]
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Did you know that Messenger RNA (mRNA) is the template in organisms for constructing proteins and subsequently, using our own biological processes to combat diseases? (Pfizer). mRNA is a type of single-stranded nucleic acid that has a phosphate group, a ribose sugar, and nucleotide bases including adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil connected together through hydrogen […]
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