by Olwen Reina | Jul 18, 2017 | Trends
Every middle school biology student is told the same lies. Well, perhaps it’s more fair to say the same, “incredible oversimplifications of the truth”. In biology 101, I was told that the nucleus is the “brain of the cell”, the membrane is the “wall of the cell” and...
by Olwen Reina | Aug 31, 2017 | Trends
You come home from a weekend away. You can’t wait to jump into your slippers, put your feet up and settle down with your favourite show. *sniff sniff* You start to notice a weird smell and after a few seconds of detective work you realize you didn’t take out the...
by Olwen Reina | Sep 21, 2017 | Trends
“I’m on a juice only diet to flush out the toxins in my body.” Living in California has many perks, from the sun, to the food, to the diversity of people you meet. One phenomenon I could probably do without, however, are the fad diets! The term “toxin” is tossed about...
by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Nov 7, 2017 | Trends
The Discovery of Alzheimer’s Disease The Alzheimer’s story began when the German physician Dr. Aloysius Alzheimer reported distinctive plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brains of deceased individuals in a series of case study reports, published in the early...
by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Nov 27, 2017 | Trends
In our last post, we walked through some of the canonical hypotheses surrounding Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but what about all the other hypotheses that are knocking around? Since AD’s discovery over a century ago countless ideas have emerged, yet the exact cause of...
by Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt | Feb 20, 2018 | Trends
Genetic variability can be defined as the genetic differences that exist within or between populations of individuals, and explains the remarkable differences between humans, despite the fact that we share 99.5 % of our DNA with each other. Genetic variability...
