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A Specialized Diet A Day Keeps Inflammation at Bay
A lab at Yale is using a fat-based diet to treat painful inflammation in patients whose immune system has gone awry.
See Me for the Person I Am
My speech does not represent my intelligence. I have the same aspirations that any other high school senior has; going to college, getting a job and living a successful life. Everybody is different, but at the same time, we are all the same.
How Creepy-Crawly Maggots Could Someday Save Your Limb
Every 30 seconds, a lower limb is amputated somewhere in the world with 84% of these amputations caused by diabetic foot ulcers (DFU)s. To improve current treatment methods for DFUs, a team of researchers headed by Dr. Max Scott is genetically engineering maggots. These eat away at your skin to save your limbs!
Using Algae to Manufacture a Malaria Vaccine
Malaria is a deadly disease transmitted by mosquitoes carrying the plasmodium parasite. To prevent the parasite from infecting mosquitoes, researchers at the University of California- San Diego look to a special toxic substance. Despite its rarity, scientists have shown that algae can be used as a mini-factory to produce the substance in large quantities.
AWIS Recognizes Two cSw Staffers
cSw student staffers Wendy Wu and Sonal Mahindroo have been awarded AWIS scholarships recognizing outstanding achievement in STEM studies.
Stick Around! cSw Staffer Creates a Sustainable Wood Resin
Veteran cSw staffer Carey Lau interviews her innovative classmate, Laura Vorbach, a finalist in the International Clean Tech competition. The secret ingredient that contributed to Laura’s successful project was bamboo.
AAAS Message for cSw Student Staffers
cSw was thrilled to open our first residential training workshop in science communication with this video message from AAAS CEO Rush Holt, taped especially for our student staffers.
BREAKING: Cells Mutiny after Communicating with Cancer
Every story has its good and bad guys. But what if you can no longer tell the difference, a situation that occurs when cancer cells force the body's immune cells into mutiny. Essentially, cells that are supposed to protect you from disease turn on you and support cancer.
Could there be a happy ending to this tragic tale of mutiny? Find out more on cSw.
Constricting Diabetes Using Python Plasma
Burmese pythons and other similar reptiles can go many months between meals, longer than most other organisms. We know what you’re thinking -- how?
Using hormonal secretions that could give us insight into treating diabetes.
cSw at CUNY: Learning to Talk about Science
Check out cSw's take on "The Purpose, Practice, and Politics of Science," a discussion between Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Harold Varmus and actor Alan Alda at Macaulay Honors College on April 18th, 2017.