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The history behind animal testing in research By Joseph Valenti, Biology, 2023 Source: Shutterstock In the past decade, a piece of technology known as a Microfluidic Human Organ-on-Chips, or Organ Chips, has been in development for research testing. These Organ Chips are clear structures that house living cells that recreate organ and tissue structures and functions, […]

Cutting Away at the Details: How CRISPR Cas-9 Revolutionized Science By Gabrielle Hernandez, Biochemistry, 2022 Source: Shutterstock Within a decade, the origins of CRISPR Cas-9 were recognized in three different parts of the world. In Japan, the repeated sequence was seen in Gram-negative bacteria; and then again in the Netherlands, in Gram-positive bacteria. Gram-positive/negative are

Finding the Roots: How we Keep Our Information Safe Online By Drew Bodmer, Physics and Computer Science, 2022 Source: Shutterstock From military movements to secret lovers, people have always needed ways to pass secret messages. This art of encoding messages to keep them safe from prying eyes is called cryptography. The first known example of cryptography

When Nurture Shapes Nature: The Role of Epigenetics in Inherited Trauma Sources: Pixabay.com By Alisha Karuvannur-Sandhu, Behavioral Neuroscience & Philosophy, 2023 The nature versus nurture debate has been a pressing controversy for centuries, from John Locke’s blank slate theory in 1690, to the twentieth century ideology of biological determinism. But what if the two are

Why We Can’t Turn Away from True Crime Source: Pixabay.com By Elisa Abraham, Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2021 From documentaries on Netflix to podcasts on Spotify, true crime is having its turn in the spotlight in our media consumption. This fascination leads to the question as to why we are unable to look away from gruesome murders, terrifying

Mangroves: The Coastal Forests Source: Pixabay.com By Brian Cho, Bioengineering, 2023 As the waves ebb and flow on the coast, they crash into the thick, fibrous roots of the mangrove tree. As described by the National Ocean Service, the forests “can be recognized by their dense tangle of prop roots that make the trees to be

(Not that) hard to resist: How humans contribute to antibiotic resistance By Carleigh Sussman, Biology, 2020 Source: Shutterstock Heart disease, cancer, and respiratory diseases are currently among the top five causes of death in 2019. However, these chronic illnesses have not always been the main worry. Flashback about 100 years, and pneumonia and tuberculosis firmly

Nanostraws: Advancement of biomolecule delivery By Cailey Denoncourt, Bioengineering, 2022 Source: Shutterstock Leading up to life-altering medical discoveries requires extensive research, but for this research to occur, the efficiency and accuracy of the instruments used are vital for better yield and results. One of the biggest outbreaks and usage explorations have been with Clustered Regularly

Support NU Sci this Giving Tuesday! Donate to NU Sci In the fall of 2009, NU Sci published their first issue featuring articles including More than a sting: How global climate change is creating quite the buzz, The Blue Brain Project, and The Large Hadron Collider: More than just science fiction. Nine years later, we are