Archive
September 20, 2010,
IN MEDIA RES: NEWS AND THE PUBLIC (MIS)UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE
by Alexander David Perkins
July 12, 2010,
SEXTING: THE “PERFECT STORM” OF EVOLUTION, CULTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY (SOME THOUGHTS)
by Michael L. Ferro
July 10, 2010,
IMPROVING MATERNAL HEALTH IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE BUT REQUIRES POLITICAL WILL
by Jasmine Hamilton
June 12, 2009,
GLOBAL ISSUES FOR BREAKFAST: THE BANANA INDUSTRY AND ITS PROBLEMS FAQ (COHEN MIX)
by Rebecca Cohen
February 23, 2009,
TERRY TALKS VIDEO: MIKE GRETES – MAKING MEDICINES FOR PEOPLE, NOT FOR PROFIT
by Terry
November 7, 2008,
THE ARCTIC PLAYGROUND – SHOULDN’T WE DO OUR HOMEWORK BEFORE WE START PLAYING?
by Jens Huft
May 8, 2008,
THE CHALLENGES THAT THE GLOBAL POLIO ERADICATION INITIATIVE FACES.
by Marissa Jitratkosol
April 10, 2008,
THE MYTHOLOGY – AND POTENTIAL – OF THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL. LEARNING FROM RACHEL CARSON
by Kate Neville
March 31, 2008,
YOUR EPIGENOME AND YOU: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO WHAT YOUR EPIGENOME DOES FOR YOU, AND WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR EPIGENOME.
by Emily Vucic
March 10, 2008,
THE 8 YEAR PLIGHT OF FOREIGN MEDICS IN LIBYA ACCUSED OF INTENTIONALLY INFECTING OVER 400 CHILDREN WITH HIV AND HOW THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY TRIED TO HELP THEM.
by Marissa Jitratkosol
March 6, 2008,
EXCERPT FROM THE LONELY PLANET’S GUIDE TO THE HUMAN BODY: NERVE CELL CITY
by Emma Brownlee
January 22, 2008,
DRUGS, INSITE, AND HARM REDUCTION: A NEW APPROACH TO PUBLIC HEALTH IN VANCOUVER’S DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE
by Alvin Lim
December 17, 2007,
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, OR CHUCK IT IN THE GARBAGE – DO WE REALLY KNOW WHICH IS BEST?
by Kaston Leung
November 22, 2007,
IT TASTES AWFUL, BUT DOES IT WORK? A SKEPTICAL PATIENT LOOKS FOR THE RIGHT MEDICINE
by Adam White
November 1, 2007,
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF METABOLOMICS: WHAT IT MEANS, HOW IT IS MEASURED, AND ITS UTILIZATION
by Genoa Barchet
September 26, 2007,
OLD FOE, NEW FRIEND: TB PREVENTION AND THE ADVENT OF DNA VACCINES
by Azadeh Arjmandi
September 21, 2007,
EYES WIDE OPEN: DISPELLING MYTHS AND UNCOVERING TRUTHS BEHIND CAFFEINE CONSUMPTION
by Gary Yang
May 30, 2007,
THE LAST CANARY IN THE COAL MINE: SMALL, YELLOW, AND OMINOUSLY SILENT
by Katherine Coburn
May 22, 2007,
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (A.K.A. IT APPEARS THAT THE WRITER WROTE ABOUT BANANAS AFTER EATING A FEW TOO MANY)
by Jerry Wong
May 16, 2007,
A CONVERSATION WITH YOUR HEART: CARDIAC BIOMARKERS – INSIGHT INTO THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.
by David Lin
May 11, 2007,
THE BIG ONE: UNDERSTANDING WHY THE BIG EARTHQUAKE IS PREDICTED FOR VANCOUVER
by Kate Potter
April 11, 2007,
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: SORTING THROUGH TANGLES AND CLEARING UP THE PLAQUE…
by Kate Potter
March 19, 2007,
SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITY OF BIOLOGY
by Gershom Edwin Samuel
March 12, 2007,
OUR SWEET ENDING: HEALTH CONSEQUENCES WITH HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP CONSUMPTION
by Gary Yang
March 8, 2007,
ON WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND: REFLECTIONS ON A HISTORICAL DEBATE CONCERNING SCIENTIFIC ETHICS
by Irene Yu
February 21, 2007,
DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE): AN OVERVIEW
by Fatou Diarrassouba Ly
February 15, 2007,
COMPARISONS OF THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE: LANGUAGE ON THE BRAIN
by Edward Ocampo-Gooding
February 7, 2007,
THE THRILL OF THE RIDE: A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF ROLLER COASTERS
by Payam Mousavi
February 5, 2007,
EBPR METAGENOMICS: THE SOLUTION TO POLLUTION IS BIOTECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
by Andrew Wylie
January 26, 2007,
SEX AND SMARTS: UNDER-REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN AMONG SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FACULTY
by Megan McLaughlin
January 22, 2007,
BIOFUELS AND THE PROSPECT OF CONVERTING PLANT FIBRES INTO GASOLINE USING ENZYMES
by Mads Hansen
December 4, 2006,
DIGGING IN THE DIRT: IS THE STUDY OF THE RHIZOSPHERE RIPE FOR A SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACH?
by Andrew Wylie
November 30, 2006,
LIVING LA VIDA LOC(A): A BRIEF INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD OF “LAB ON A CHIP” AND MICROFLUIDICS
by Carolina Tropini
November 3, 2006,
EMBRYOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND ETIOLOGY OF CARCINOMA: GATEWAY TO THE CANCER STEM CELL THEORY
by Angela Beckett
October 24, 2006,
GENE CLASSES FOLLOW DIFFERENT FATES AFTER PLANT GENOME DUPLICATION
by Heather Ramsey
October 10, 2006,
IS THERE SUCH A THING AS ISLAMIC SCIENCE? THE INFLUENCE OF ISLAM ON THE WORLD OF SCIENCE
by Golareh Habibi
August 20, 2006,
TRANSGENIC CROPS: HOW GENETICS IS PROVIDING NEW WAYS TO ENVISION AGRICULTURE
by Jamie Pighin
August 20, 2006,
THE ORIGIN OF THE Y CHROMOSOME: HOW THE PAPAYA IS PROVIDING SOME INTERESTING ANSWERS TO IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
by Hank Chen
August 18, 2006,
HUNTINGTON DISEASE: OVERVIEW OF A GENETIC NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDER
by Peyman Tavassoli
August 6, 2006,
THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT: THE IMPACT OF GENOME SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY ON HUMAN HEALTH
by Joanne Fox
July 29, 2006,
CONVERSING AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL: AN INTRODUCTION TO SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
by David Secko
July 14, 2006,
FOOD MICROBIOLOGY: THE BASICS AND THE DETAILS OF CHEESE PRODUCTION
by Grace Yim & Clive Glover
July 12, 2006,
PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS AND OUR FUTURE: SHOULD WE BE PEERING INTO THE WOMB?
by Joseph McPhee
July 10, 2006,
PAINLESS GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING: SAGE (SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION)
by Chan Ho Song and Michelle Wyse
July 3, 2006,
DNA FINGERPRINTING IN THE STANDARDIZATION OF HERBS AND NUTRACEUTICALS
by Harish Vasudevan
June 14, 2006,
BIOPROSPECTING: A NEW WESTERN BLOCKBUSTER, AFTER THE GOLD RUSH, THE GENE RUSH
by Corinne Cluis
May 13, 2006,
RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASES: MOLECULAR SCISSORS FOR SPECIFICALLY CUTTING DNA
by Megan Simmer & David Secko
March 22, 2006,
FATHER AND DAUGHTER OR STEAM ENGINE TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE: FUEL CELLS RUNNING ON ALCOHOLIC COCKTAILS
by Lars Rose
March 10, 2006,
ON THE POTENTIAL PRESENCE OF BEER OR BEER-LIKE LIQUIDS IN OR RESULTING FROM VOLCANIC EMANATIONS
by Sanford Kaplan
February 21, 2006,
A LESS THAN FORMAL TREATMENT OF BIOLOGY CONCEPTS FOR THE BUDDING BIOINFORMATICS WANNABE
by Misbah Naseer
January 27, 2006,
RIBOSWITCHES: REFORMING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF METABOLIC REGULATION
by Colette Davis
November 22, 2005,
THE FIGHTING HYPOTHESIS: STABILITY OF POLYMORPHISM IN HUMAN HANDEDNESS
by Ronald Chiu
November 16, 2005,
THE ACKEE FRUIT (BLIGHIA SAPIDA) AND ITS ASSOCIATED TOXIC EFFECTS
by Andrea Goldson
November 16, 2005,
THE ACKEE FRUIT (BLIGHIA SAPIDA) AND ITS ASSOCIATED TOXIC EFFECTS
by Andrea Goldson
November 12, 2005,
HEY BABY! I THINK OUR INTERACTION FUNCTIONS WOULD MESH WELL. LET’S DATE
by Clive Glover
November 7, 2005,
TRANSGENE ESCAPE: ARE TRADITIONAL CORN VARIETIES IN MEXICO THREATENED BY TRANSGENIC CORN CROPS?
by Hardy Hall
October 16, 2005,
ROUNDING UP THE SCHMEISER CASE: BENEFIT AND LIABILITY ISSUES OF TRANSGENIC CROPS
by Corinne Cluis
October 3, 2005,
INTELLIGENT DESIGN: SINISTER CREATIONISM, COMMON SENSE OR JUST PLAIN CRAPPY SCIENCE
by Momoko Price






