Lucid Dreams
Faculty Editor: Professor Jeffrey DaCosta
Most of us can recall a time where we’ve had a seriously disturbing nightmare. For trauma survivors and victims of PTSD, having nightmares is a chronic problem ...
Nanorobots for Cancer Treatment
Faculty Editor: Professor Jeffrey DaCosta
Nanomedicine, or the medical application of nanotechnology, is an emerging field with great potential for improving public health. Currently, new forms of nanot...
The Potential Anti-Tumor Effect of a Ketogenic Diet
Faculty Editor: Professor Jeffrey DaCosta
ons in blood sugar and insulin levels, increased level of beneficial HDL cholesterol, and decreased level of detrimental LDL cholesterol. In addition, there hav...
An Unconventional Strategy for Treating Bacterial Infections: Gallium-disrupted bacterial iron metabolism and therapeutic outcomes for lung infections
Faculty Editor: Professor Jeffrey DaCosta
Bacteria are unicellular microorganisms that differ from eukaryotic organisms like plants and animals by a characteristic lack of membrane-bound organelles such...
Intratumoral injection of Clostridium novyi-NT spores induces antitumor responses
Faculty Editor: Professor Jeffrey DaCosta
Most cells require oxygen in order to properly perform aerobic cellular respiration, where glucose and oxygen are reacted to produce ATP through an intermediate...
Forming A Better Understanding of How We Perceive Space
For centuries, it was philosophers who shaped our early understanding of what it meant to have a consciousness — to consider yourself as separate from your environment. By the end of the 18th century, this...
A “New” Method of Discovering Antibiotics
According to the CDC, antibiotics have been over-prescribed by doctors for the about the last decade. This is mostly due to the effective nature of antibiotics at treating bacterial infections, but natural...
Targeted inhibition of Gq signaling induces airway relaxation in mouse models of asthma
Chronic lower respiratory disease, which encompasses conditions such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma, ranks just behind heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death in the U...
Novel Strategy in Reducing Obesity
Currently more than the one-third of the world’s population is either obese or overweight. Obesity has rapidly become one of the largest global epidemics as it puts the individual at high risk for many lif...
Retrieving Lost Memories
Imagine living a life you couldn’t remember. Experience would be held hostage to the moment; constantly disappearing and reappearing as a new scene. The knowable world would stretch no farther than your percept...