A Collection of Works for BIOL 293

A paper based on research done on a newly developed leukemia drug and its mechanisms within the cell, written for Cell Biology in Fall 2018. — Leukemia Research Paper                 Acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, is an aggressive, typically-fatal cancer characterized by the presence of immature leukemic blasts in the body’s bone marrow and other...

A paper based on personal research done on immunotherapy drugs and their mechanisms within the cell, written for Cell Biology in Fall 2018. — Personal Research             Cancer immunotherapy is an area of research that I am highly interested in. One particularly interesting aspect of immunotherapy is the idea of manipulating receptors in cells to...

A letter written to my past self at the end of my Cell Biology course in Fall 2018. — A Final Letter to Myself   As this semester comes to a close, I look back on the past few months and mentally take a journey through all of the things I have learned. Although some concepts were difficult to understand, particularly some receptor-coupled...

A letter written to my future self at the start of my Cell Biology course in Fall 2018. — Dear future Sarah, Biology has always been a major interest of yours. Being a pre-med student with high aspirations to one day become a surgeon, your love and curiosity for biology has always been more than enough motivation to probe into deeper subjects in...