Author: kjoanna224
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I Published A Book on Amazon!
After two toiling years of tears, sweat and helpless cries, I finally completed my novel and was fortunate enough to have it published on Amazon! While the novel initially started off with the plan of writing in it a diary-like style, where I would write my actual real life through a made-up character, my story…
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“Bioengineered” is the New Label for GMO foods, according to new food labeling laws in the U.S.
Just recently on January 1rst, the United States Department of Agriculture released new regulations regarding the labeling standard for genetically engineered food — “GMO”s to “bioengineered” or “derived from bioengineering” will be the new labels placed on foods that have been genetically modified in artificial ways. This change has taken several years in implementing. The…
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Fungus lures male flies into mating with dead females
1 NOV 2021, 5:10 PM BY ERIK STOKSTAD If you see a dead housefly on a windowsill surrounded by a ghostly halo of tiny white spores, it’s a death trap. The insect was invaded by a fungus that took over its brain, manipulating the fly to find the highest perch it could. From there, the…
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Vending Machine of Love
On one random day in October, few friends and I were casually conversing about the elderly center near our school called the Hagye Silver Center. As the COVID-19 pandemic was worsening in Korea, we wanted to find ways in which we could help alleviate the effects of COVID-19 in our community. Our conversation got more…
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Faculty Kid Slime Session – ACS
Our club recently hosted a slime session for faculty and faculty kids. This session was dedicated to increasing more parent-to-kid interaction among the faculty and faculty kids since faculty members are busy during school days. We initially had 3 faculty members who signed up for the event, but fortunately, we were able to recruit more…
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Debunking the Idiosyncratic Korean Electric Fan Death Myth
As summer has ended, I thought it would be quite hilarious to debunk the extremely idiosyncratic Korean myth called the “Fan Death”. There runs a quite popular myth among Korean people that running an electric fan on in a confined room with closed windows/sleeping with a fan too close to your face will kill you.…
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2021.10.08. ROCK CANDY SUCCESS!
For our third club meeting, we conducted a rock candy experiment. Although this did bring back bad memories of last year (we failed last year), we decided to conduct another rock candy experiment because according to the student response form, the majority of the members wanted to conduct a rock candy experiment. This time, we…
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Chemistry Puns :P
For our ACS club meeting on October 1rst, we created a few fun pun posters on Canva.com. Every member searched up / created their own puns and created a square sized poster. Here are our pun posters! – Joanna Kim, October 9th, 2021, 5:00PM KST –
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09.17.21. First Meeting of the School Year + Paper Chromatography !
Last Friday was the first ACS Club meeting we held for this school year. As previously mentioned from the club booth post, I had been excited by the number of people that had displayed some interest in joining our club. Our previous club members also expressed that they were very excited for the newly affiliated…
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Stanford researchers develop an engineered ‘mini’ CRISPR genome editing system
Bioengineers have repurposed a “non-working” CRISPR system to make a smaller version of the genome engineering tool. Its diminutive size should make it easier to deliver into human cells, tissues and the body for gene therapy. BY TAYLOR KUBOTA The common analogy for CRISPR gene editing is that it works like molecular scissors, cutting out…
Biochemistry Science Blog! 