Category: Featured Articles
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The Driving Force of Medical Progress: Pharmaceutical Innovation and Its Global Reach
Written by Yasmin Tarfi Labouri In the world of healthcare, pharmaceutical innovation is like a powerful, unseen current, constantly pushing medicine to new frontiers and expanding what’s achievable. This kind of innovation isn’t just about labs and test tubes; it touches on a wide array of scientific, medical, economic, and social aspects (IPC Public Debates,…
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CRISPR technology
By Praatah Gandhi Over recent years, one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs has come in the form of gene editing, specifically CRISPR. Currently, it has the potential to reshape our entire world, running from medicine to agriculture, and it has the power to change the future and fate of humanity. CRISPR was first introduced…
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Baumgartner’s Stratospheric Odyssey
By Meheru Alaspure “Sometimes you have to go up to understand how small you are. I’m coming home now.” – Felix Baumgartner (Howorth, 2022) It took us 38. 969 ����, a team of aerospace engineers and medical professionals, a balloon thinner than your sandwich wrapper, and an Austrian daredevil to break the sound barrier and become supersonic. On…
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Vibrational Vicissitudes: Understanding the LADEE Spacecraft Test Failures
By Bryan D. Milstead NASA, despite its prestige and innovation, is no exception to the phenomenon of failure. Failure can be overwhelmingly devastating (such as the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster which claimed the lives of seven crew members) (Myers, 2021, slide 3) and sometimes, downright discouraging (i.e. the 1999 Mars Polar Lander software malfunctions…
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SITUS INVERSUS TOTALIS
Featured Article by Rawan Adam We look at the same diagram of the body everytime we study human biology. Every diagram you’ll ever see when studying anatomy follows the same structure, mapping out how the human body is structured internally. But what if we said this diagram doesn’t represent the entire human population? What is…
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NAVIGATING THE FRONTIER OF BRAIN IMPLANTS: TRIUMPHS, TRIALS, AND ETHICAL FRONTIERS
By Nicole Yeung Over the past decades, we have witnessed many breakthroughs during the development of brain implants. With numerous experiments measured and recorded, researchers are currently juggling tasks to seek advancements in these devices while facing major challenges they must overcome at the same time. Years back, a college student by the name of…
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