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Continue reading →: Riverdale’s “Serial Killer Genes”: Unpacking the Science Behind the MAOA Gene
By Zarah Palha I began watching Riverdale, along with the rest of the world, in 2017. Now, this is a judgment-free zone, so I can admit that while others may have stopped watching due to the show’s inconsistent themes and plots, I stayed loyal. In season 3, the Serial Killer…
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Continue reading →: THE VIEW FROM HERE: From rough seas to golden skies
By Audrey Kelly Nyoni What a journey it has been! Looking back to my first day in this Honours degree, everything feels so much clearer now. Initially, the thought of two weeks of general techniques, followed by three weeks of stream-based practicals, twelve intense weeks of modules, and a demanding…
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Continue reading →: No Sleep, No Sense: Effects of sleep deprivation on your brainpower
By Audrey Kelly Nyoni Imagine this: It’s 3 AM, and you’re still scrolling through social media, cramming for tomorrow’s exam, or maybe juggling both. Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Sleep deprivation is a widespread phenomenon that’s quietly disrupting mental performances of millions of people. Approximately 60% of college students reported…
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Continue reading →: Have You Had Your Eyes Checked Recently?
By Amy Stubbs This year felt like going to the optometrist and realizing I’d needed to get an updatedprescription. Things started out looking murky and formless, where I wasn’t able to see muchpast a few metres in front of me. However, slowly along the course of the year, things started…
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Continue reading →: Decoding Human Conversation
By Amy Stubbs When we’re chatting to our friends over a cup of coffee, one doesn’t stop to ponder thecomplexity of events that is occurring in the brain as we speak, pause to listen and formulateresponses. However the neural mechanisms behind this are highly complex and are in fact notvery…
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Continue reading →: Science, Sisterhood and Self-discovery
By Erin Layne Fischer Honours has been an eye-opening year. As someone who left her undergraduate years lookin forward to beginning work that veers away from rote learning and testing, I am excited by the prospects of research and contributing to the field of science. I feel that, especially with…
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Continue reading →: What Parents Don’t Know Can Hurt Their Children: Rethinking Genetic Testing for Retinoblastoma
By Erin Layne Fischer Imagine being told that your child has a rare malignant eye cancer and finding out that it couldhave been caught earlier if you had known what to look out for? Retinoblastoma (Rb) is the most common paediatric eye cancer with 8,000 incident casesworldwide annually and approximately…
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