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Continue reading →: Reflective Piece
by Eden Levi Back in high school when I started Physical Sciences, my intrigue and love for chemistry and working in a laboratory started to blossom. I knew that this field was one that had more to offer as my understanding developed, and that there were so many directions I…
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Continue reading →: Reflection
by Motshidisi Matela In my short life, there are many experiences that could qualify as life changing. Every new experience was, at one time or another, the first experience. For good or bad, each instance changed the course that my life has taken, but the most transformative experience was being…
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Continue reading →: Potential new drug reduces cancer-treatment side effects
by Carl Belger Doxorubicin or DOX is an anti-cancer drug currently used to treat a variety of cancers. However, one of its common side effects is cardiotoxicity or damage to the heart. This is caused by heart cells dying during treatment and is commonly known as DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. Patients treated…
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Continue reading →: A Sacrifice Potentially Worth Making
by Kili James I’m tired. I’m drained. I’m cold. And, my eyes are sore. These are some feelings I have at the end of my examination period of 2021. The same feelings I have as I head towards the end of my second year of online learning. Online learning; I…
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Continue reading →: We live and we learn
by Upendra Naidoo I had long thought that 2020 was the worst year I could have experienced given the start of a global pandemic, but along came 2021. It’s no secret that I found my undergraduate degree challenging. It was filled with loss, growth, a search of identity and at…
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Continue reading →: Functional MRI in pre-surgical language mapping in epilepsy patients
by Motshidisi Matela Can you take quick guess which neurological disease is most prevalent in the world? If you guessed epilepsy, you are correct. Epilepsy is a condition in which one experiences recurrent and unprovoked seizures, it affects 50 million people worldwide both males and females of all races, ethnic…
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Continue reading →: Cervical Cancer
by Talia Gabay Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer globally. This is largely attributed to the oncoproteins E6 and E7, which are produced by the body following infection and integration into the human DNA by a high-risk strain of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). These oncoproteins, can lead to…
