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EXPLORING INVISIBLE WORLDS
It’s often said that we know more about space than we do about Earth’s own oceans. In the case of the midocean ridges, the maxim is pretty much true.
THE ADAPTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM: ATTACK OF THE CLONES
Your body is tasked with fighting off hordes of microbes each day. So how does it keep you healthy? Your adaptive immune system plays a key role. It has two key features that work to keep your body free of foreign invaders: specificity and memory.
CIRCULAR RNAS…WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND
In the biological world, we see that many things come in different shapes and sizes: animals, plants, microbes, and proteins. It turns out that even RNA falls into that category. In this article, we will explore what circular RNAs are, the history of their discovery, and why we should care about them.
THE RNA WORLD: HOW ALL OF LIFE (MAYBE) BEGAN
Before there were chickens or eggs, there were RNA molecules that gained the ability to duplicate themselves. How did these molecules manage to do this outside of cells on the early earth, and how did this lead to life as we know it?