Wali Siddiqui

Bioengineering // Class of 2025

Bionic eyes: Can we provide artificial vision?

Health, Technology / /

An estimated 45 million people in the world are blind. A multitude of factors cause blindness. Amongst the greatest are genetic disorders, such as retinitis pigmentosa, which affects over 2 million people worldwide, and macular degeneration, which affects 14 percent of people over the age of 80. One solution to this? Bionic eyes. Creating artificial […]

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What happens to your body when you gain or lose weight?

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According to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, in 2020, over 40 percent of the United States population was considered obese. Obesity causes many issues like coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, many types of cancers, and a weakened immune system. Due to the medical difficulties that come with obesity, the lifespan of

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