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Living Undiagnosed: The Importance of Diagnosis for Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
By Nell Tov Imagine living your entire life without knowing the cause of the chronic pain you’ve been experiencing. You might feel...
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Jun 13, 20233 min read
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Hoping for the Future
By Sydney Lee What if you were ailing with a genetic disease but were planning to have children? Would you feel scared of wanting...
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Jun 13, 20233 min read
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The Genetics of Psoriasis
By Katelin Wu When discussing autoimmune diseases, most people tend to associate them with conditions like Multiple Sclerosis or...
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Jun 13, 20233 min read
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Brighter Tomorrows With Cystic Fibrosis
By Steven Chang Imagine a world where mischievous mucus becomes the ultimate troublemaker, wreaking havoc on your body like a playful,...
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Jun 18, 20223 min read
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Ethical Concerns With Vaccine Testing
By Mohini Haque During the COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to have a sneak peak at the race for producing the COVID-19 vaccine through...
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Jun 18, 20224 min read
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DNA Testing: Are the privacy concerns worth the risk?
By EDITA COSOVIC Have you ever wondered about your genetic makeup? From your ethnicity to a future health condition, AncestryDNA,...
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Jun 18, 20223 min read
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Genetic Counseling: Helpful or Harmful?
By FABIHA CHOWDHURY & MANRUCHI PADDA A faint ring reaches into your ear as your face is grazed by a rolling breeze, carrying a smell so...
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Jun 18, 20223 min read
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We Can Eat GMOs, But Should We?
By Wei Ni Zhang Potatoes, soybean, squash, papaya, corn, and apples. What do these foods have in common? They are a part of a group known...
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Jun 18, 20223 min read
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Racial Disparities in Mental Health Care
By Sophia Augustin The genetic underpinnings of mental health have been the focus of research for several years in hopes of moving a step...
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Jun 18, 20224 min read
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What is Biocuration?
By Marian Caballo Biocuration describes the act of integration and publishing of biological information into resources, online databases,...
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Jun 18, 20223 min read
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A Genetics Based Approach to the Debate on Sick Animal Treatment
By Cervantes Pagan & Yasha Rubakha In the current political climate, animal treatment has become a hot topic of debate. More...
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Jun 17, 20223 min read
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The Toll of Living
By Tanis Mui The current century that we now live in is nothing short of a scientific miracle. The modern age has pushed the boundaries...
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Jun 14, 20224 min read
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IVF: The Perfect Solution to a Modern Problem?
By Jolly Zheng The progression into the Modern Age has continuously led to the emergence of both new technologies as well as modern...
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Jun 14, 20222 min read
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DNA Testing: Are the privacy concerns worth the risk?
By Edita Cosovic Have you ever wondered about your genetic makeup? From your ethnicity to a future health condition, AncestryDNA,...
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Jun 14, 20223 min read
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See You in A Century… Maybe?
By Lee Chen What can we do if a person turns up with an untreatable disease? Will they await their inevitable death, time ticking away at...
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Jun 14, 20222 min read
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Genetic Testing: How Much Access Do Companies Have to Our Personal Information?
By Jillian Chong According to Margo Georgiadi, the president and Chief Executive Officer of Ancestry, around 30 million people in the...
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Jun 14, 20223 min read
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Bioethical Principles in Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Donation
By Jessica Alonso & Meriel Crowley-Wang Before the first successful organ transplant could take place, doctors had to perform many...
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Jun 14, 20226 min read
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Genes: Product of Nature or Intellectual Property?
By Mahin Ahmed Genes, the basic units of heredity composed of sequences of nucleotides, have been at the forefront of the public eye...
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Jun 14, 20223 min read
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GMO… Children?
By Elizabeth Han One order of Healthy Baby coming right up! Genetically modifying lifeforms is not a new thing for humans. We have been...
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Jun 14, 20223 min read
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CRISPR: Revolutionary or not?
By Zoey Sun On the 25th of November, 2018, a world-changing announcement was made on the popular video-sharing platform, YouTube, with...
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Jun 14, 20222 min read
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