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Note: this research article is adapted from a group PowerPoint presentation. I conducted the research along with four other students and primarily edited the presenter notes. The work was finished by June 26, 2024, one day before the Supreme Court made its decision on Moyle v. United States. The original PowerPoint presentation is attached to the article. The References section is also attached. This is one of the scenarios Supreme Court Justices brought up to case advocate Joshua N. Turner...

You can find the seminar recording and the supplemental document here: Link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/15barVz5HLQLqyFyYiQfA0w?pwd=uwgv Password: uwgv Required Courses for Medical School Following these links to see the required college courses for medical school: Prerequisite Courses for Harvard Medical School Required Coursework for the School of Medicine at Georgetown University General Academic Competencies for the Perelman School of Medicine at UPenn Usually, pre-med coursework includes:...

Nobel Prizes, as stipulated in Alfred Nobel’s will, are decided and awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences (for Chemistry) and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (for Medicine). Chemistry prizes are dedicated for those “who made the most important chemical discovery or improvement” and medicine prizes are awarded to those “who made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine”. While connections between public health and medicine prizes can be very clearly...

What is precision or personalized medicine? Would a teenage boy buy the same clothes as his grandmother? Probably not. But when they get sick, they’re likely to receive the same medical treatment, despite their many differences. And so will everyone else. That’s because even the world’s best scientists and doctors don’t fully understand yet how different people develop disease and respond to treatments. The result is a "one-size-fits-all" approach to medicine that is based on broad...

Exciting! Another application of personalized medicine is fetal sequencing--a baby's genome can be screened for genetic diseases to allow parents to properly prepare. I encourage you to watch GATTACA, an older movie. The driving concept in the movie is that genetic information determines one's whole lifetime. Although it does not account for the fact that characteristics and health of a person is also dependent on environment, it is still a cool movie!