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A New Pathway to Disease Control By Victoria Miller-Browne, Biology, 2020 Source: Pixabay This article was originally posted as part of Issue 39: Synthetic. Cell to cell communication is the basis for how any sort of process is mediated inside of the body. These include processes such as a drug’s mechanism of action, the onset of […]

The Next Potential Cure for Cancer By Victoria Miller-Browne, Biology, 2020 Source: Pixabay This article was originally posted as part of Issue 37: Interaction. When mother of two Lesley Graham was told that her breast cancer had relapsed, she thought that she would never be able to see her two daughters, Charlotte, 14 and Rebekah, 12

The Big Six By Victoria Miller-Browne, Biology, 2020 Source: Pixabay This article was originally posted as part of Issue 38: People. Have you ever happened upon a random person’s profile on any social media platform only to be surprised to find out that you have a mutual friend? The idea of being connected by multiple degrees

Your Internal Clock By Victoria Miller-Browne, Biology, 2020 Source: Pixabay This article was originally posted as part of Issue 35: Motion. According to researchers Aminoff et al. (2011) on average, we spend about one-third of our lives sleeping or attempting to do so. Despite the fact that sleep itself makes up a large percentage of our

Components of Communication By Victoria Miller-Browne, Biology, 2020 Source: Pixabay This article was originally posted as part of Issue 36: Local. As light shines into the office of David Lewkowicz, the lab coordinator of the Communication Development Lab (CDL) at Northeastern, it illuminates textbooks with subjects ranging from sensation and perception to the analysis of

Uncommonality of Blue in Nature By Victoria Miller-Browne, Biology, 2020 Source: Pixabay This piece was originally published as part of Issue 34: Color. When American scientist David Lee first entered the Malaysian tropical rain forest in the mid-1970s, he was astonished by the beautiful scenery, including the Rajah Brooke birdwing butterflies and the majestic trees. However,

Fire’s force for good By Sanjana Mishra, Computer Science, 2023 Source: Pixabay Growing up in California, with Smokey Bear grinning down from every billboard remotely near the “wilderness,” I was always against the idea of fire. To me, fires destroyed lives and homes, and caused me to experience respiratory difficulties. The only benefit of a fire

Zombies in the snow: reviving ancient pathogens By Amanda Zavala, Cell & Molecular Biology, 2020 Source: Pixabay 2016, Siberia. The summer was unusually warm, and the permafrost began to melt, thawing reindeer carcasses that were buried in the ice 75 years ago. That summer, a young boy, and over 2,000 reindeer, died of anthrax infection — the

Copycat Arson: Accelerating the damage of the California wildfires? By Lauren Voso, Biology, 2023 Credit: Jonah Levine, NU Sci Photography Coverage on the California wildfires have become a constant in the news. As climate change seems to worsen the likelihood and extremity of wildfires, there has been a corresponding increase in the coverage of wildfire