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Pain, fatigue, vision loss, impaired coordination; these are all symptoms that Jill Flowers, age 40, experiences because she has multiple sclerosis (MS).          “My life has changed dramatically.’ says Flowers. “I’ve been diagnosed since 2012. So I’ve had a diagnosis for four years and I’ve been on treatment for four years, but my everyday day life has...

Heather Ashby, age 35, (author Cassidy Ashby’s mom) has to have the house clean and make sure the house is organized at all times or it will drive her crazy. She even has to go through three stages to clean the floors: sweep, dry mop, and then wet mop. One day Cassidy asked her, "Why does everything have...

Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), a defect of the heart, is when a baby is born with one ventricle instead of the two ventricles that are needed to pump the blood through the body.      Dr. Mark Rodefeld, a pediatric heart surgeon at the Indiana University of Medicine, is trying to make a technology to help assist...

Lots of teenagers think that staying up all night is fun, but falling asleep in class can be just one out of a plethora of problems that can occur when you don’t get much sleep. According research published in 2015 by psychologists Sheldon Cohen with Carnegie Mellon University and Aric Prather from the University of California at...

Sea Levels: How High Will It Go?  Elisabetta Gabriele Amal Hamed This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

The octopus has been a mystery for as long as humans have studied them. The biggest mystery? Octopus arm regeneration.          In a 2013 study led by Letizia Zullo, a researcher at the Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies in Genoa, Italy, it was found that the main reason octopi can regenerate arms is the protein acetylcholinesterase...

Mark Geraghty, age  49, played football for seven years and was been diagnosed with CTE in 2012.  “It was a terrible experience ,” recalls Geraghty. “I didn’t know that getting multiple concussions in football could lead to head aches and memory loss.” CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease caused by...

One morning I woke up with a burning pain near my waist. Later that day, when I coughed, sneezed or ran, it began to hurt more. At track practice, my coach noticed that I was limping while running and wanted me to see the doctor. A few days later, I went to the hospital for a checkup...

Global Climate Change Made Local Rose Garr Marissa Quinn

Ocean Acidification Isabelle Chickanosky Anna McAtee This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License