CJ Crombie

Cell & Molecular Biology // Class of 2026

Could a new human blood substitute address supply shortages in the U.S. Military?

Health / /

“Hemorrhage is the number one potentially preventable death.” Curtis Conklin, Command Surgeon for the U.S. Armed Forces Command (FORSCOM), echoes in a statement to NU Sci what has already been emphasized for decades: the issue of blood supply, from the floors of hospitals to the fields of duty. Luckily, a recent advance in hematology called […]

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Opinion: Is science universal? Dissecting scientific belief

Opinion / /

Science is indisputable, empirical, objective. Or at least, it’s supposed to be.  The practice of science is methodical; designed to produce universally accurate knowledge. Ironically, there is a long and nuanced history of the cross-cultural approaches to science and knowledge. Science is, in other words, uniquely plagued in epistemology. Science does not have to be

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Opinion: The cultural significance of handwriting is too great to lose to keyboards

Culture, Opinion, World / /

The earliest example of physical writing is widely considered to be Cuneiform, a system of wedge-shaped inscriptions dating back to 3000 BCE. Attributed to the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia, the informal system was utilized namely for communication and maintaining transactional records. Although this physical remnant of Sumer offers invaluable insight into ancient civilization, most anthropologists

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