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Dear past self, You are going into this course thinking it will be difficult and boring, involving a lot of memorization of cell parts that you will never be able to keep track of. While it has been difficult at… Continue Reading →

I decided to research toxoplasmosis, because I was curious about its effects on behavior, especially since it is a very common disease (approximately one-third of humans worldwide are infected) and its preferred host is the housecat. I found a research… Continue Reading →

Guevedoces, or “penis at twelve,” is the name used in the Dominican Republic for girls who turn into boys at puberty (BBC, 2015). This extraordinary phenomenon is the result of a condition called 5-alpha reductase deficiency, which is also found… Continue Reading →

Little is known about the causes of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), despite it being the most common form of dementia (“Alzheimer’s disease,” 2016). AD is characterized by misfolded proteins in the brain. These proteins have an unknown function in their original… Continue Reading →

I have always been fascinated by behavior, both of humans and animals. After reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and Richard Dawkins’s The Ancestor’s Tale, I was surprised to find that both authors seemed to view the world… Continue Reading →