By Tazkiah Salam Ancestry refers to the lineage and heritage of a person and where their pre-disposers came from. The main difference...

By Alessandra Dounias When you think about your genetic makeup, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Most people think of genes...

By Yuko Zhuo You walk into a room and see everybody on the last cigarette of their pack. What percent of these people are addicted...

By Elizabeth Guerrero During the mid-1800s, English scientist Francis Galton first coined the phrase ‘nature versus nurture’. The idea...

By Kazuma Morris The Human Development Index (HDI) is a measurement of a country's overall development and the well-being of citizens. A...

By Samiha Nasrin With over 700,000 people diagnosed with a brain tumor in the US alone per year, neurological diseases such as this...

By Eddie Jiang If you were to unravel the roughly two meters of DNA found in one cell, you might find a segment of genes that gives you...

By Evan Li Genes are the basic unit of heredity; they serve as the instructions from which RNA is transcribed and subsequently, proteins...

By Jason Hwang In the GATTACA, a movie directed by Andrew Nichols and released in 1997, it describes a world in which jobs and social...

By Sumi Lama Gene therapies aim to cure genetic diseases by managing the root of the problem and altering genomes. In the past few years,...

By Yvonne Fong Cancer is a disease caused by a mutation in the cell's genes that control how the cell grows and divides. These mutations...

By Melanie Cruz Life as we know it as young people is taken for granted so often, making memories that are supposed to last forever....

By Xin Lian Personalized medicine is recognized as a revolutionary method of providing healthcare that customizes medical interventions...

Comprehensive discussion of people living with genetic disorders of varying intensities By Krishti Banik Many people assume that genetic...

By Samantha Dong Before tackling this in depth question, what are health disparities? There are preventable differences in the quality of...

By Davin Dhanraj and Pithiya D’ Costa

By Gabrielle Usvyat The leading cause of death in the United States is heart disease with a toll of around 700,000 people every year....

Daniel Addoquaye Eosinophilic Esophagitis or as it is more commonly known as EoE, is a chronic condition that affects the esophagus and...

By Elisabeth Chai “Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” The musings of Sir William Osler, the “Father of...

By Diya Prajapati Prenatal genetic testing allows for parents to determine the risk of their child developing a genetic disorder. Today,...