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Hello Ageless Science! My name is Leah Berger, and I’m a student volunteer with Ageless Science. There haven’t been blog posts here for a...
Leah Berger
Oct 4


Book Review: Breath From Salt by Bijal Trivedi (Part 2 - Reflections)
This is a continuation of my previous post, Book Review: Breath From Salt (Part 1 - Summary). Trivedi’s narrative of these scientific...
Ellie T.
Oct 29, 2023


Book Review: Breath From Salt by Bijal Trivedi (Part 1 - Summary)
Bijal Trivedi, award-winning journalist and senior science writer for the National Geographic, has stunned with her debut novel, Breath...
Ellie T.
Sep 28, 2023


Reflections on Week 9 of Summer Internship
This week, I spent the last amazing days with my fellow CEMS interns (pictured above), concluding with intern research presentations and...
Ellie T.
Aug 11, 2023


Week 8 Reflections on Summer Internship
Image: Agilent Seahorse XF Analyzer, running our Seahorse assay experiment I’m excited to report that I performed my first Seahorse assay...
Ellie T.
Jul 31, 2023


Week 7 Reflections on Summer Internship
Figure: heat map I created using GraphPad, combined cytokine data from months May through July. After nearly two months of working in the...
Ellie T.
Jul 23, 2023


Week 6 Reflections on Summer Internship
Image: my dimensional analysis and concentration/volume calculations for our Naproxen/Ibuprofen experiment. After realizing our drug...
Ellie T.
Jul 16, 2023


Week 5 Reflections on Summer Internship
After four incredible weeks of observing and conducting my advisor’s experiments, I was able to design my own novel experiment this week!...
Ellie T.
Jul 10, 2023


Week 4 Reflections on Summer Internship
Image: live microscopy of neutrophil swarming around Zymosan bacterial target. Analysis of neutrophil swarming imaging consumed the...
Ellie T.
Jul 2, 2023


Week 3 Reflections on Summer Internship
Image: microfluidic assay I created during microfabrication and prototyping workshop. Weekly seminars are available for CEMS summer...
Ellie T.
Jun 25, 2023


Week 2 Reflections on Summer Internship
I’m excited to report that I’ve begun to fall into the routine of the lab after my second week at the MGH Center for Engineering in...
Ellie T.
Jun 17, 2023


Week 1 Reflections on Summer Internship
I've just concluded my first week as an intern at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery (CEMS)....
Ellie T.
Jun 11, 2023


ChatGPT: Recap of May 2023 Discussion
Imagine if Google could compose college-level essays. Speak and analyze every language. Pass the US Medical Licensing Exam. Enter...
Ellie T.
May 26, 2023


DNA Isolation: Recap of March 2023 Lab Experiment
The study of DNA is the foundation for scientific fields ranging from pathology to genealogy to immunology. But have you ever wondered...
Ellie T.
Mar 17, 2023


Biomimicry: Recap of January 2023 Discussion
Bullet trains. Air conditioning. Wind turbines. All brilliant inventions - but can we truly take all the credit for these advancements?...
Ellie T.
Jan 30, 2023


AI in Healthcare: Recap of November 2022 Discussion
Do you feel comfortable with a Fitbit having access to your sleep schedules? With a computer using AI to interpret your mammogram or CT...
Ellie T.
Nov 19, 2022


Jesse Gelsinger and the Ethics of Clinical Trials
Patient Jesse Gelsinger died on September 17, 1999 after being in ordinary medical condition less than four days prior, consequently...
Ellie T.
Nov 7, 2022


Nuclear Energy: Recap of September 2022 Discussion
How much time do we have left to reverse climate change? Some say nine years, some say seven, and others say we've already passed the...
Ellie T.
Sep 30, 2022


Darwin’s Contributions to Scientific Racism
"It is true that what Darwin said had very little impact, but that what people thought he said, that is, what they already believed and...
Ellie T.
Aug 23, 2022


Organ Engineering and Donation: Reflections on June 2022 Discussion
True local story: Brigham and Women’s Hospital decides to take a young man off of the cardiac transplant list with ensuing protests. In...
Ellie T.
Jun 17, 2022
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