I’m an immunologist, or a parasitologist, depending on whom you ask or who asks me. I investigate how parasites modulate the human…
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The Student Blog Hallmarks of Cancer: Where do Parasites fit in?Read more
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Cancer RNA-Based Therapies Meet the 21st CenturyRead more
This post is cross-posted with Berkeley Scientific Journal We have all taken aspirin for minor aches, known someone who takes simvastatin to…
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The Student Blog A Touching EveningRead more
This post is cross-posted on Berkeley Science Review. For those of you who read the BSR blog, you may have noticed that…
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The Student Blog I Do Not Want an Initiative, I Want Open AccessRead more
This guest post comes from Angelica Tavella, a senior at UC Berkeley. I am interested in copyright law, and especially interested in…
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The Student Blog The New Face of the Stem Cell DebateRead more
The debate surrounding stem cell research is nothing new. For years, proponents of embryonic stem cell research, believing in the promise of…
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The Student Blog Research: not a job, but a lifestyleRead more
You grow up learning about the different career choices that you can have. There’s the usual – fireman, police officer, or doctor…
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The Student Blog Announcing Touch Me – a BSR event exploring the fascinating world of touch, on October 27thRead more
Imagine the first organisms that ever existed. Single-celled, incredibly simple, skirting about in whatever primordial ooze they found themselves in. Those little…
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The Student Blog Astrophysics Through a Student’s EyesRead more
At some point in our childhoods, most of us idolized astronauts, pasted glow-in-the-dark stars to our ceilings, or delighted in imagining a…
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The Student Blog Digesting The PastRead more
This article is being cross-listed on The Berkeley Science Review. Check out some other really interesting pieces there! A few weeks ago, I…
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The Student Blog Schoolhouse Block: Science Students and the Government ShutdownRead more
This post includes information gathered by Student Bloggers: Katrina Magno, Rachel Cotton, Jane Hu, and Anna Goldstein, as well as from PLOS…
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The Student Blog Science needs heroes and a wonderful teamRead more
Science needs a cocktail of humor, simplicity and bunch of exciting results to take it down the gut by non-scientific audience. Science…
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The Student Blog Zombie Nouns and Alzheimer Flowers: Challenges in Reading Academic ScienceRead more
In 16 years of school, I have cried only once over academics. Say what you will about low blood sugar, flu recovery…