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Exit, Pursued By Science

A Powerful Weapon for Battling Breast Cancer

Cancer begins from a single mutation in a single cell. By the time it is a full-blown tumor, it carries hundreds of genetic and molecular alterations that allow it to grow uncontrollably outside the constraints of normal biology. Cancer therapy today falls into one of three groups: classic...
December 11, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Graduate Division
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History of Science: Discoveries and Re-Discoveries

April 15, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Bald’s Leechbook is one of the world’s oldest surviving medical texts. Dating to the 10th century and written in English...
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Expanding Biomedical Degree Options

April 2, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Every week we see exciting science and technology news pop up in our social media news feeds. From the outside...
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The Future of Health: Gizmos and Gadgets Edition

March 18, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Wearable technology, implantable nano-devices, 3D-printed organs and drones are all slowly but surely bringing us to the fabulous science fiction...
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Avoiding nutritional causes of disease

March 5, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Rates of childhood peanut allergies in the Western world have doubled in the last decade: the current rate is estimated...
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Tumor immunology takes off

February 20, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Tumors are not just solid masses of cancer cells. As those cancer cells grow and divide, they hijack all the...
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The Science of Food: The Safe GMO and the Un-boiled Egg

February 3, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Humans have been developing genetically-modified organisms for millennia through the process of artificial selection—human-directed selective breeding—of plants and animals for...
Science

Targeting Telomeres, Reusable Rockets

January 20, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
If you break an aglet—the plastic cap on the end of your shoelace—the lace will fray. Then it’ll rip. Soon...
Science

Antibacterial Fat, DIY Pancreas

January 6, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Happy New Year! Isn’t it great that while we were all on vacation, enjoying the holidays with our friends and...
Science

Vaccine Outreach

December 21, 2014
Hanna Starobinets
This is an extra web-only edition of my column between print issues while Synapse is on holiday break. As such...
Science
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