Author: Guadalupe Astorga

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  • Interview with Sohail Tavazoie

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      Senior Attending Physician Leon Hess Associate Professor Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology Interview by Fernando Bejarano Imagine that you are just out of graduate school and about to embark on a biomedical science post doc in a world-renowned research institute. You have your Ph.D., you feel self-assured, confident, and certain…

  • NYU’s “Street Science” Aims to Bridge the Gap Between STEM Fields and the Younger Generation

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    Johannes Buheitel “Cool” and “Awesome” are just two of many joyous exclamations I hear while I am trying to squeeze through the crowd of children, parents and other interested individuals filling up the NYU Kimmel Center to the brim. On Sunday, June 5, citizens from all boroughs came to Washington Square Park to engage in…

  • Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: A Concise History of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes

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    Part XX: Paul Greengard, 2000 Prize in Physiology or Medicine Joseph Luna Of the 37.2 trillion cells in the human body (excluding microbes), there are about 100 billion, or about 0.2%, that are a breed apart. These supercharged cells are indeed just that, charged to carry electrical signals to communicate with one another. They are…

  • All Aboard the BioBus

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    Aileen Marshall What were your science laboratory classes like when you were in grade school or high school? Did you ever get a chance to use a fluorescence microscope? Or sequence DNA? I never did. What if you had never been exposed to much laboratory science during your school years, would you have gone into…

  • CrossFit: Everything You Need to Know About One of Our Current Fastest Growing Sports

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     Francesca Cavallo Starting any new exercise practice can be discouraging, and it’s no different when entering into a CrossFit gym, which can be a nerve-wrecking experience. Although in the current sports environment everybody is talking about CrossFit, there are those who don’t even know what kind of sport it is. CrossFit is a complete and…

  • Free Summer Park Events in NYC

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    Susan Russo Park rules for ALL parks: NO glass containers (baby bottles OK); alcohol; smoking; drugs; dogs off leashes YES blankets or towels (but NO plastic or tarps); restrooms; food vendors/stands MOVIES Manhattan Bennett Park (Fort Washington Avenue and West 183rd Street, Pinehurst Avenue) Thursday, July 21   Show starts at 8:30pm. – Ray St. Nicholas…

  • The Violent Brilliance of Peaky Blinders

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    Bernie Langs It isn’t often that a television series completely engages me, and I am able to watch entire seasons without losing interest. Peaky Blinders comes to Netflix from the BBC and centers on a gangster family with their many schemes and adventures in post-World War I Birmingham, England. I’ve watched the first two seasons…

  • For Your Consideration – Ones to Watch, Vol. 1 Edition

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    Jim Keller It’s that time of year again! This first in a four-part series, focused on the leading ladies of the Best Actress race, will take us up to January 2017 when Oscar nominations are announced. This year’s Best Actress selection was as stark white as last year’s, prompting many to have another heyday with…

  • New York State Of Mind

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      This month Natural Selections features Brian Fabella, Research Technician in the Hudspeth Lab Interview by Guadalupe Astorga How long have you been living in the New York area?                            17 years in July. Where do you currently live?  Which is your favorite neighborhood? I currently live in Woodside, Queens, and my favorite neighborhood right now is Long Island…