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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 13, 20224 min read


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 13, 20222 min read


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 13, 20223 min read


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 13, 20222 min read


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 13, 20223 min read


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 13, 20226 min read


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 13, 20223 min read


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 13, 20223 min read


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 13, 20222 min read


Three-Parent In Vitro Fertilization
By Promi Chakraborty With the onslaught of new breakthroughs in research, the answer to the question “where do babies come from?” has...
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Jun 13, 20223 min read


Purine, Pyrimidine, and Prison: Evidence in the DNA
By Zubayer Mahbub What comes to your mind when thinking of police or detectives solving a crime? For most, the mental image is quite...
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Jun 13, 20224 min read


Do You Want to Choose the Best Baby?
By Xinyi Gao Preimplantation Genetics Diagnosis is a subsidiary of reprogenetics, which is a combination of types of approaches of...
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Jun 13, 20222 min read


To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate?
By MiaoTing Zhen As of 2022, most Americans are vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, but this was not always the case. Even after the...
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Jun 13, 20223 min read


Here’s a new liver made just for you. And a heart. And a brain. And a…you?
By Nikola Petrov & Tahmid Tapan Cloning is the process of producing genetically identical copies of a biological entity. The copied...
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Jun 13, 20222 min read


Dawn of the Planet of the Humans
By Raymond Huang “If we evolved from monkeys, why are they still around?” This is an age old counterargument to Darwin’s natural...
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Jun 17, 20193 min read


Keep Your Friends Close and Your Family ~Closer~: The Genetics Behind the Habsburgs and Other Royals
By Noshin Shakawat Have you ever wondered if you came from royalty? WELL, YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO BE. When monarchs reigned throughout the...
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Jun 17, 20192 min read


Born to Succeed?
By Rachel Choi With modern technology, would it ever be possible to determine a child’s measure of life-long success as early as during...
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Jun 17, 20192 min read


To Eat or Not to Eat a Donut
By Julia Michalak A large population of the world considers to have a “sweet tooth.” For these people including me, the thought of a...
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Jun 17, 20192 min read


Intelligence
By Ding Hong Zheng Intelligence, like most aspects of human behavior and cognition, is a complex trait that is shaped by both genetics...
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Jun 16, 20192 min read


Your Chances of Becoming the Next Drake May Be in Your DNA
By Arhem Amer Many people at some point in their lives have dreamt of becoming famous artists of some sort, such as Leonardo DaVinci or...
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Jun 16, 20192 min read
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