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Pillow Talk: The Science Behind The All-Nighter, Rilyn Mckallip
Pillow Talk: The Science Behind The All-Nighter, Rilyn Mckallip
Osmosis Magazine
It’s that crazy part of the semester. Finals are coming up, and you find yourself staying awake later and later trying to cram for important tests. The night before your toughest final, you decide to pull an all nighter. It’s the only way you’ll be able to learn all those facts. The day of the test, you feel awful, but you make it through, and have a feeling you probably passed. As you go back to your dorm to crash, all seems well. You think to yourself, “that one night of lost sleep probably won’t hurt me at all.”
Mysterious X Lymphocyte Cure To Type One Diabetes?, George Qiao
Mysterious X Lymphocyte Cure To Type One Diabetes?, George Qiao
Osmosis Magazine
Diabetes, the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, is caused by excessive blood glucose. Type 1 diabetes is a variation of the disease characterized by a deficiency in insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas that allows cells to take up glucose from the blood and receive energy. Lack of insulin results in accumulation of sugar in the bloodstream, and subsequently dehydration, excessive urination, and tissue damage. The need to prevent the disease is urgent, as over a million children or young adults in the world have type 1 diabetes, and over 100,000 cases of type 1 …