Author:
Shirley Jiang
October 28, 2025
Bone fractures are a common injury that is often accompanied by ischemia or broken blood vessels. Blood vessels are essential for bone repair as they supply oxygen to surrounding cells. Thrombospondin-1 (TSP1) is understood to inhibit angiogenesis (blood vessel development). However, the effects of ...
Author:
Naya Shah, Katelynn Cai
October 07, 2025
Microplastic pollution is a significant threat to aquatic life and human health, yet sustainable remediation options remain limited. Chlorella vulgaris is a potential alternative due to its ability to produce hydrophobic extracellular polymerase substances, allowing it to bond with the microplastics...
Author:
Rwda Hagar
October 31, 2025
"Water is life." Since the time of the Pharaohs, Egypt has faced the challenge of flooding. This made it important to take advantage of floods rather than letting them cause disasters. Dams are effective in storing water resources while resisting floods. Therefore, to address the issue of ...
Author:
Hannah Joseph
August 19, 2025
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disease which affects more than six million Americans. Although the etiology of AD is unclear, studies suggest alcohol consumption as a risk factor for dementia requiring neurologists’ aid. The prevalence of binge drinking wor...
Author:
Grace Nolan
August 04, 2025
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severe mental disorder identified as one of the most common mental illnesses. For 50 years, there has not been a full understanding of the brain’s biology when depression occurs. To reach a conclusive outcome, 86 MDD patients were surveyed, giv...
Author:
Fiona Lin
July 30, 2025
Bacterial infections negatively affect public health. Many organisms mobilize lipids as a source of energy to resist against pathogens. One pathway, the BMP pathway, plays a role in the regulation of lipid metabolism. By understanding the use of fat in cases such as loss of appetite in infection cou...
Author:
Eushra Rahman
July 25, 2025
Developmental prosopagnosia (DP), also known as face blindness, is a condition in which individuals have an impairment in the FFA region of their brain. This results in inability to recognize faces. Majority of the current body of literature focuses on the biological aspect of developmental prosopag...
Author:
Eric M. Reilly
July 22, 2025
Fischer esterification is one of the most prominent industrial methods of ester production, involving a reaction between an alcohol and carboxylic acid in the presence of a catalyst to turn the carboxylic acid into an ester. However, Fischer esterification results in large amounts of waste due to th...
Author:
Chris Zhang
July 16, 2025
Bistable structures, structures with two distinct equilibrium states achieved via buckling-like deformations, are seen throughout engineering applications in shape-morphing and energyharvesting systems. Typically actuated by mechanically induced snap-through buckling, sinusoidal arches, a unique geo...
Author:
Afnan Ali
July 11, 2025
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a debilitative illness that severely impacts quality and duration of life, with neurologists and psychologists seeking remedies to this disease. Currently, past studies have found that metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5) and melatonin have been impli...
