Pre-Collegiate

By Akansha Sallakonda, Dublin High School. The Human Genome Project, a thirteen-year long initiative, aimed to build a comprehensive...

By Samara Alazar, West Springfield High School. Merely decades ago, groundbreaking scientific discussions concerning the ethics...

This study performed gene network analysis of ten differential expressed genes in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients’ brains and controls using...

Eric Choi, Seoul International School, Gyeonggi-do, Seongnam-si, South Korea Next-generation sequencing (NGS) provides massive sequencing...

By Medha Lolayekar, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, California, USA https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2020.12.00028 With an estimated 14...

By Tenzin Kunsang, Jones College Prep, Chicago, IL https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2020.08.00016 Tibet, a linkage between two of the world’s most populous countries, sits high at an altitude of about 4,380 meters. For reference, New York City’s highest elevation is 125 meters (USGS, 1995), and Mt. Everest—the tallest mountain in the world—is 8,850 meters tall (Rutledge, 2011). Indigenous Tibetans have evolved with adaptations that allow for them to live more than 4,000 meters a

Carolyn Colman, Jones College Prep, Chicago, IL https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2020.06.00009 Opioid addiction is increasingly becoming a crisis throughout the world. In 2016, staggering statistics show “the opioid epidemic accounted for close to 80% of the 64,000 drug-related deaths in the United States and is now the country’s leading cause of accidental deaths” (Goodman-Meza). This problem is not exclusive to the United States: “Because of their capacity to cause respiratory

By Jaden Bhogal, University of Toronto Schools, Ontario, Canada https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2020.05.00008 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of a microorganism to resist antimicrobial treatments against it, resulting in persisted and oftentimes lethal infection in individuals. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that AMR has the potential to skyrocket into one of the largest global health issues humanity has ever faced. In their 2018 fact sheet, they men