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COVID-19: Insights from UC Berkeley’s Infectious Disease Experts

by Berkeley Scientific2020, featured, Spring 2020 July 21, 2020February 28, 20220 comments

COVID-19: Insights from UC Berkeley’s Infectious Disease Experts By Sharon Binoy, Ananya Krishnapura, Esther Lim, Elettra Preosti, Melanie Russo, Michael Xiong, Katheryn Zhou, Matthew Colbert, and Rosa Lee As published in Berkeley Scientific Journal Volume 24, Issue 2 Intersections, pg. 4-7 COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has spread rapidly across our …

Awe in nature and its therapeutic effects

by Berkeley Scientific2020, BSJ Blog, featured, Spring 2020 July 21, 2020February 28, 20220 comments

By Erin Fernwood During these months spent in quarantine during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, never before have we had more pressure to find alternatives to our everyday routines that we can no longer execute. Every single person across the globe has had to rearrange their lives in some way in order to accommodate for …

Born to Kill? The story of ‘Serial Killer’ genes

by Berkeley Scientific2020, BSJ Blog, featured, Spring 2020 July 21, 2020February 28, 20220 comments

By Anusha Subramanian All the way back in 2010, an Italian judge made legal history by decreasing the already reduced sentence of a male convict accused of murder, after the convict was found to be a carrier of genetic variants that were thought to be associated with a predisposition for aggression (Forzano et al., 2010). …

New experiments can predict occurrences of quantum jumps and may require scientists to reevaluate old theories

by Berkeley Scientific2020, BSJ Blog, featured, Spring 2020 July 21, 2020February 28, 20220 comments

By Amar Shah When the mathematical rules for quantum mechanical theory were first created, Niels Böhr and Werner Heisenberg proposed a way to interpret these rules and explain their physical implications: this became known as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The idea of superposition is instrumental in this: that until the property of a …

Vaping: A popular but potentially dangerous activity for your health

by Berkeley ScientificFall 2019, featured December 20, 2019February 28, 20220 comments

by Andrea He A cloud of vapor is exhaled from the mouth of the student walking in front of you – smelling not of cigarettes but faintly of mangoes. This scene has become more and more common on university campuses and amongst young adults as vaping becomes more prevalent. Vaping related illnesses are also …

Wave Goodbye to that Coastline

by Berkeley Scientific2019, BSJ Blog, featured, Spring 2019 April 14, 2019February 28, 20220 comments

by Ethan Ward Climate change is a topic that is discussed constantly, but rarely from a non-politicized lens. The work of climate scientists is to study global trends in how the atmosphere interacts with itself as well as other systems (hydrosphere, cryosphere, etc.) and make predictions on what they find, not to dictate policy. The …

Caloric Restriction Study on Rhesus Monkeys Shows Promise in Aging Research

by Berkeley Scientific2019, BSJ Blog, featured, Spring 2019 April 9, 2019February 28, 20220 comments

by Sharon Binoy In the age of ever-changing diet fads guaranteed to help you lose as much weight as possible in the least amount of time, research is shedding light on a new kind of diet that could improve your health in the long term- caloric restriction. According to the National Institute of Aging, caloric restriction …

Mice Parental Exercise May Positively Impact Offsprings’ Health

by Berkeley Scientific2018, BSJ Blog, Fall 2018, featured December 4, 2018February 28, 20220 comments

By Saira Somnay In the past, it has been scientifically proven that parents’ poor dietary and exercise habits can negatively affect their offspring. The most known examples of this include obese pregnant mothers’ children having a higher risk of becoming obese and the offspring of males who ate high-fat diets exhibiting characteristics of type 2 …

HIV-targeting antibodies offer an alternative approach to current HIV treatment, which has toxic side effects

by Berkeley Scientific2018, BSJ Blog, Fall 2018, featured December 2, 2018February 28, 20220 comments

By Isabelle Chiu HIV is unstoppable, and its current treatment with harmful side effects. But what if we had a way to combat it? The human immunodeficiency virus, also known as HIV, is a virus that weakens the immune system by attacking a subset of T cells called CD-4+ cells. Severe HIV infections can lead to …

The Chandra X-Ray Discovers Galaxy’s Youngest Pulsar

by Berkeley Scientific2018, BSJ Blog, Fall 2018, featured November 30, 2018February 28, 20220 comments

By Meera Aravinth At the end of a gigantic star’s life, its mass collapses in on itself, triggering an extreme explosion known as a supernova. After the dust settles, a very dense object known as a neutron star remains. These neutron stars are typically about 12 to 13 miles in diameter, but have more mass …