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Wanted: Curious Teens Who Love Science and Love To Create
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Platypuses Making a Splash in Diabetes Research
The platypus is a comical, egg-laying mammal with some strange anatomy. Dr. Briony Forbes and her team at the University of Adelaide have discovered a hormone in platypus venom that may hold the key to a long-lasting diabetes treatment.
Notes from the Field
cSw joined visual science communicators, researchers, journalists, and artists for an event focused on visualizing science for analysis, education, and inspiration.
Once Bitten, Twice Shy: A New Attempt to Prevent Lyme Disease
What's the back story regarding a failed attempt to prevent Lyme disease? Given the great number of Americans at risk, the public deserves better.
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.