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Reading People Like an Open Book: How Researchers are Linking the Shape of Your Brain to Your Person
When a person claims they can read you like an open book, what clear observations have you given them to confidently say such a...
Scientist of the Semester: Inside view on Dr. Han’s lab on cyber-physical systems and its relation t
Suppose there is a city of the future where everything is connected, and intelligent systems are implemented into society for the greater...
Silver Lining: Explore the Lee lab use of rabies virus to target tumors
Everything has a silver lining. The rabies virus, infamous for killing beloved Old Yeller, is deadly because of its dangerously efficient...
The "Pre-Med Mentality" & How to Cure It
Opinion: Is the pressurized culture of current pre-med students actually hurting our chances of being a better physician? The pre-med...
Getting a CRISPR View Into Our Genome
CRISPR-CAS9 (Clustered Regulatory Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats): Technology that enables scientists to edit parts of the genome....
Healthcare as a Human Endeavor
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” - William Osler What does it mean to...
Dr. Zhang’s Drosophila Lab
Dr. Ping Zhang and his team at of the University of Connecticut have been studying the genetics of neurodegenerative diseases in the...
Learning New Sounds
Speech. A one syllable word to describe the entirety of the complexity that makes humans, human. Humans’ ability to communicate with each...
A Respected Adversary and a Barbaric Monstrosity
In today's society, the word, "cancer," is uttered in hushed tones as if to insulate it from our routine conversations. We become...
Politics in Mental Health
Donald Trump’s Plans for Mental Healthcare If the sight of another politically oriented article makes you cringe, that is completely...
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