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Macronutrients: what’s inside our food?
With today’s rising, yet right-minded trends of concern and responsibility regarding the food which we put in our bodies, we see more and...

Stefan Darius Daravoina
Mar 24, 20243 min read
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Sugar: friend or foe
I doubt that there is anyone out there who has never indulged in a sweet treat, whether that is a warm cinnamon bun on a cold winter day...

Ioana Vimard
Mar 24, 20243 min read
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The buzz of caffeine
Coffee. One word, multiple definitions, according to who you ask. But to put it a simple way, that applies to almost everyone, it is one...

Ioana Moga
Mar 24, 20242 min read
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Humans Are Killing Us: Biodiversity
Biodiversity refers to the variety of living organisms on Earth encompassing plants, animals, and even the tiniest microbes; the...

Luzie Bergander
Mar 23, 20243 min read
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How can you genetically engineer a plant? Is there any way other than CRISPR-Cas9?
We have talked in previous articles about plasmids, about CRISPR, about genetically engineered plants… is there any simpler way? Indeed,...

Izabela Ninu
Mar 23, 20242 min read
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Mirror Neurons: Enigma of our brain
Have you ever wondered how some people are so emphatic, while others cannot even drop a tear, no matter the situation they are put...

Păunescu Alexia-Andreea
Feb 26, 20242 min read
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The science behind getting jacked
When we think of getting strong, building those big bulky muscles, more often than not we associate it with lifting heavy weights, going...

Stefan Darius Daravoina
Feb 25, 20242 min read
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My twin or my clone...
Cloning? Seems impossible, doesn’t it? It had always been something that we would watch with fascination in animations, on TV. But what...

Ioana Moga
Feb 25, 20242 min read
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Immortality roams our Earth
We’ve always been told that immortality is just fiction and is only real in SF movies or books, but does it actually exist? As time...

Ana Barbu
Feb 25, 20242 min read
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Fats: Reputation VS Reality
Nowadays a lot of people are trying diets to lose weight or even try to improve their health. However,doing it without taking in...

Ingrid Roșu
Feb 25, 20243 min read
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PAIN OR GAIN?
For the majority of us, one really controversial topic that pops up in our conversations is working out, and, as the new year has begun,...

Ioana Vimard
Feb 25, 20243 min read
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The realities of knuckle cracking
Whether it triggers a sense of satisfaction or sends shivers down your spine, cracking knuckles is a widespread and controversial habit...

Emma Catanescu
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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Judgement is not vintage!
Don’t be like that! Is that what you’re wearing? That’s not how you sit! You’re eating all that? I have no doubt in my mind that most of...

Nazare Delia Gabriela
Feb 20, 20243 min read
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Gene for cellular respiration - COX6B
We all assume that genes in different organisms differ enormously. But are plant genes so different from human genes? How are they...

Izabela Ninu
Feb 12, 20242 min read
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Radiotrophic Fungi- How?
The term ‘radiotropism’ refers to the ability of several fungal species to harvest usable energy from forms of ionizing radiation, such...

Ioana Teodora Rizea
Feb 12, 20242 min read
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Secrets of Seal Survival
Ringed seals (Pusa hispida) are the smallest of the pinniped species and are known for their distinctive ringed shaped markings on their...

Ahrin Lina Lee
Feb 12, 20242 min read
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Rats laugh too–If you tickle them
Would you believe it if I told you that these disgusting, dirty and hated creatures, rats, can laugh? Probably not. Or would you want to...

Luzie Bergander
Feb 11, 20242 min read
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Humans: A Threat to Extinction
In 2023, 21 species (including the little Mariana fruit bat and the Bachman’s warbler) were declared officially extinct by the U.S. Fish...

Ahrin Lina Lee
Jan 22, 20242 min read
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How was CRISPR discovered in nature?
Bacteria are not sterile to viruses: that is one of the main issues of the big food chain companies that need to use those bacteria. They...

Izabela Ninu
Jan 22, 20242 min read
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Scissors That Will Save Lives: CRISPR
Literal Scissors? No! “CRISPR is an acronym for "Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats." Scary long, I know. It is a...

Luzie Bergander
Jan 22, 20242 min read
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