The Power of the Placebo
Have you ever taken your mother’s sacred herbal tea for a common cold and felt much better only to find out later onward that there was...
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Aindri Patra
- Jun 30
- 4 min
Art Therapy for Parkinson’s
“It just takes you out of the disease,” said Andrea Casson. “Parkinson’s disease is feeling like you're losing control every day, and...
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Alexandra Yiachos
- Jun 30
- 4 min
Music: Natural Therapeutic for Alzheimer’s and Dementia?
Slumped in her chair, Estelle seems more like a statue than a person – eyes closed and breath shallow, flickering between asleep and...
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Ryan Levine
- Jun 30
- 3 min
Psychedelic Therapy: Otherworldly Potential
As strange as it sounds, it might take going out of our minds to feel more comfortable in our own. As the importance of mental health...
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Vikash Sabharwal
- Jun 30
- 4 min
Insulin Independence: A Stem Cell Cure
As she scrolled through her annual lab results, she was expecting the usual cascade of results, but her heart skipped a beat and began...
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Aarthi Arun
- May 16
- 3 min
Gene Therapy: A Step Into The Future
Genes contain the biological instructions that dictate every part of our biological composition from the color of your eyes, how tall you...
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Tszki Peter Wei
- Dec 12, 2021
- 6 min
Bacteriophages, viruses that can save lives instead of taking them
Antibiotics are one of the greatest scientific advances ever made. A world in which a simple bacteria infection would end up in death is...
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Andy Jae
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
How to Save Millions of Lives with Nanoscale Imaging
Medical breakthroughs in the 21st century have opened many new exciting possibilities with the potential to save millions of lives. But...
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Chris Cizmeciyan
- Dec 12, 2021
- 5 min
Vaccines of the Past Make a Comeback
For generations scientists have been striving to cure cancer and eradicate infectious viruses, and new vaccine technology could help us...
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Diego Burga
- Nov 22, 2021
- 3 min
The Janicki Omni Processor: A Revolutionary Waste Management Innovation
Nearly a year ago, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates walked on stage holding a jar of human feces to highlight a...
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Angel Torres
- Nov 22, 2021
- 4 min
Build-A-Baby: How Race and Economics Shape Reproduction
Innovations in reproductive health are advancing at an exponential rate. Unfortunately, the latest technology is inaccessible to many,...
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Joy Pojim
- Aug 18, 2021
- 3 min
Grey’s Anatomy Enthusiast, M.D.
Medical dramas are among the most watched shows on television. They feature hospitals or other medical environments as the main setting...
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Anika Kumar
- Aug 17, 2021
- 4 min
Retraining the Brain
Is it possible to retrain your brain to become an entirely new person? What if all of a sudden, after months of feeling lethargic and...
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Ronit Kumar
- Aug 17, 2021
- 4 min
The Future of Biotechnology
What if we had the ability to cure cancer, treat blindness, develop “super” plants, or remove diseases from infectious organisms?...
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Kiran Ganga
- Aug 17, 2021
- 4 min
Diagnosing Alzheimer’s: A Simple Blood Test
For decades, we have been trying to find out how to diagnose, let alone cure, Alzheimer’s. From expensive tests to long waiting times,...
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