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Romanov Assignment John Paul Cross Janet Rinehart-Kim, BIOL294 4/25/2022 History: The Romanov dynasty lasted for three centuries from the 17th century to the 20th century. In 1917 Nicholas II and his family were usurped by the Bolshevik party. In 1917… Continue Reading →

Writing assignment #5: Summary for a General News Article John Paul Cross Genetics, Dr. Rinehart-Kim             The article covers the research a group of scientists working with the University of California in Santa Cruz that worked to fill in gaps… Continue Reading →

Writing assignment #4: Summary for a Primary Article John Paul Cross Genetics, Dr. Rinehart-Kim Spinal Muscular Atrophy, or SMA, is a rare monogenic disease that is caused by improper coding in the first survival motor neuron (SMN1), and results in… Continue Reading →

Writing assignment #3: Citation for a Primary Article John Paul Cross Genetics, Dr. Rinehart-Kim Mendell, J. R. et al. Single-Dose Gene-Replacement Therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy. New England Journal of Medicine 377, 1713-1722 (2017).

Writing assignment #2: Primary and Review Articles John Paul Cross Genetics, Dr. Rinehart-Kim             One could argue the importance of primary articles could not be overstated, and that they serve as the back upon which the vast majority of modern… Continue Reading →

Writing assignment #1: Personal Statement for John Paul Cross Genetics, Dr. Rinehart-Kim When I was a child, my family went on a vacation to the San Juan islands off of the coast of Washington. During the trip I was given… Continue Reading →

Throughout the course of the class, I was fascinated and enamored with the utterly daunting series of highly complex physical and chemical interactions and subunits that all come together to allow for cells to function and preserve metabolic homeostasis. These… Continue Reading →

ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF PROTEIN FOLDING ON ALZHEIMER’S AND POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS OF PROSAAS By John Paul Cross Cell Biology Professor Kierra Wilkins Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 12/12/21 Analysis Of The Effects Of Protein Folding On Alzheimer’s And Potential… Continue Reading →

For this assignment, I created this meme of Carl Wheezer screaming in anguish to represent the stomach cells inside a person’s stomach lamenting their host’s poor dietary decisions, as well as their imminent destruction. I created this meme with the… Continue Reading →