Author: kjoanna224
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Fantasie Impromptu
Piano has been, for a long time, my dearest companion and one of my most favorite hobbies ever since I was 5. So I guess, it’s been at least 10 years since I started playing. I loved performing piano pieces, some of my most favorite pieces including the “Time Travel Theme” by Jay Chou from…
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Is Pyramax the New COVID Treatment?
Recent reports have suggested a newly developed anti-malarial drug called Pyramax® with the ingredients of pyronaridine/artesunate, that people can use, which wouldn’t require them to receive the COVID vaccine (so basically like an alternative of the vaccine that makes the individual immune to the virus). The company of Pyramax®, Shinpoong Pharmaceutical, obtained FDA Philippines approval…
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Are you struggling to sleep? Scientists report DNA’s to blame
Experts from Oxford University, the Netherlands, and the US reviewed 36 studies on sleep duration and quality, one of which included a study of 400 sets of adult twins to observe if such sleep trends were caused by genetic factors. Findings published in the Sleep Medicine Reviews journal concluded with a recent study that discovered…
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Suspicions grow that nanoparticles in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trigger rare allergic reactions
Original article written by Jop de Vrieze (DECEMBER 21, 2020) Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. Severe allergy-like reactions in at least eight people who received the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech over the past 2 weeks may be due to a compound in the packaging…
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Rock Candy Experiment!
The first experiment of our ACS Chem Club was chosen to be Rock Candy! As the club members wanted to conduct a safe experiment that didn’t require much professionalism for our first experiment, we decided to make Rock Candy! We were also requested by our chemistry teacher to volunteer at her after school activity called…
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Establishment of APIS ACS Chemistry Club!
As the new school semester is slowly “unraveling” itself, clubs have opened again! The school was buzzing with excitement about the announcement of clubs. As the science geek I am myself, I decided to request a proposal to host a new club, with the confirmation of an official chemistry organization that officially supports high school…
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Using CRISPR to Destroy Cancer Cells
Original article written by Carmen Leitch A few days ago, researchers and Professors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for their work developing the gene editor CRISPR/Cas9. Since it was created, the gene editor has been used in many ways in research labs and has even moved to human trials in the…
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Autism Spectrum Disorder Biomarker is Discovered
Original article written by Carmen Leitech (SEPTEMBER 15, 2020) Scientists may have identified a biomarker for autism spectrum disorder, which can be difficult to differentiate from other disorders like hyperactivity, and may be challenging to diagnose correctly because it can present so differently. Reporting in Brain Communications, researchers have determined that the levels of a molecule called FABP4 are lower in…
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COVID-19 PROPAGANDAR POSTER
I know, I’m posting too often about COVID-19 related artwork, but I recently created a new poster again! It’s a propaganda poster to reinforce the encouraged COVID-19 prevention solutions.. COVID-19 really isn’t stopping, and there are already predictions from researchers about possible COVID-19 mutations because of this unceasing contamination. An example of this can be…
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Laser jolts microscopic electronic robots into motion
Original article written by David Nutt (AUGUST 26, 2020) In 1959, former Cornell physicist Richard Feynman delivered his famous lecture “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” in which he described the opportunity for shrinking technology, from machines to computer chips, to incredibly small sizes. Well, the bottom just got more crowded. A Cornell-led collaboration…
Biochemistry Science Blog! 