Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that has puzzled physicians and scientists for decades. Throughout the years, copious amounts of research has been performed in an…
Month: February 2017
Cell survival is contingent upon signals from the extracellular matrix (ECM) and the loss of this signals typically causes cell death, or apoptosis. The ability…
Cancer cells continue to trick mammalians and seek immortality. Although, cancer cells tend to use glucose during aerobic glycolysis to provide the building blocks, the…
Lipids have long been known to play key roles in maintaining the plasma membrane’s structure and functionality in mammalian cells. Studying the distribution of these lipids,…
Similarly to when I explored the meaning of biochemistry, when researching diseases in biochemistry I came across a very wide range of disease types that…
The Mevalonate Pathway is one of the ways that the human body synthesizes its own cholesterol. Those who suffer from high cholesterol are typically…
Synthetic biocatalyst has been a hot topic for the past 10 years in the world of synthetic chemistry. It has so far been considered a…
Breast cancer as it relates to the BRCA2 genetic mutation: The BRCA2 gene mutation runs in my family on my father’s side. My dad passed…
As the norovirus and muhlenplague (the flu that attacks our college) transcends our campus, I’ve decided to pull some time away from obsessively washing my…
It’s very ironic how I’m writing this post as my uni seems to be in the middle of a turf war involving a norovirus, the…
