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Sara Sybesma Tolsma

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Biological Truth

Biological truth is that sex determination is a complicated developmental process, controlled by many genes

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Anxious People

I passed by Fredrik Backman’s newest novel, Anxious People, as I was perusing the browsing section of my institution’s library. I didn’t think that a

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Consciousness in a Petri Dish?

Early last semester a headline in the journal Nature caught my eye: Neanderthal-like “Mini-brains” Created in the Lab with CRISPR. I bookmarked the article and

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The Gift of Gene Therapy

My father had his first heart attack at 37 years old. Let that sentence sink in for a second. No part of this shocking statement

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