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Reactivating Sirtuins to Mitigate Alzheimer’s Disease

Using longevity techniques to mitigate the most common dementia-related disorder — Note: Before you read this, I highly recommend that you read my preceding article: Our “Alive” Time Is Ticking…But Why? ⌛ An overview of why we age and a few potential solutionsmedium.com Imagine a falling bookshelf. The topmost part of it contains all your recent memories, and the bottom parts contain your older memories: your mom braiding your hair or singing to you, your dad making you memorize…

Technology

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Reactivating Sirtuins to Mitigate Alzheimer’s Disease
Reactivating Sirtuins to Mitigate Alzheimer’s Disease

Published in CARRE4

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Our “Alive” Time Is Ticking…But Why?

You were vibing when it happened. Listening to your favorite album on Spotify, brushing your teeth + checking yourself out in the mirror — then you noticed it. Gray hair. The pinnacle of all your problems. Granted, it was only a few strands — but it meant that you were….old. …

Wellness

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Our “Alive” Time Is Ticking…But Why? ⌛
Our “Alive” Time Is Ticking…But Why? ⌛

May 1, 2021

FuelVida — Augmenting healthy eating by gene editing.

In collaboration with Sarah Jiang, Kiersten Ngeow, and Aliya Ojuade. If given the choice between a vegetable salad or nice, fried chicken and crispy potato fries, people are more likely to go ahead and pick the fries. 84.8 million Americans consume fast food daily. That’s about 37% of all US…

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FuelVida — Augmenting healthy eating by gene editing.
FuelVida — Augmenting healthy eating by gene editing.

Published in students x students

·Feb 20, 2021

Pregnancy Tests + COVID-19 Testing: An Explanation of Lateral Flow Assays

“Lateral flow immunochromatographic assays” is a big phrase and seems intimidating. I’ll try to break it down for you. — When I’ve asked the older women in my life who have been pregnant, they told me that they found out through “peeing on a stick.” I was very confused. I thought they meant a tree stick.

Covid 19

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Pregnancy Tests + COVID-19 Testing: An Explanation of Lateral Flow Assays
Pregnancy Tests + COVID-19 Testing: An Explanation of Lateral Flow Assays

Published in DataDrivenInvestor

·Dec 31, 2020

This Book Saved My Physics Grade

The Importance of A Growth Mindset — A large part (more than half) of my month was dedicated to studying for my final exams. In particular, AP Physics was the one I put the most emphasis on, although AP Calc + AP Comparative + French weren’t too far behind. The physics final was particularly important because it…

Growth

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This Book Saved My Physics Grade
This Book Saved My Physics Grade

Published in DataDrivenInvestor

·Dec 24, 2020

Physics and Personal Progress

Who knew that studying for my physics finals would lead me to a productivity x physics crossover? Velocity Let’s start off with something simple, and probably the first thing you’d ever learn in an introductory physics course: what is velocity? (Kinematics, woo!🍻) The answer: velocity is your motion with direction. Unlike…

Physics

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Physics and Personal Progress
Physics and Personal Progress

Published in DataDrivenInvestor

·Nov 28, 2020

Solving Big Problems Soon: Some Food for Thought

I got inspired to write this article after having attended the MIT Tough Tech Summit. I was simultaneously attending my virtual class, so, unfortunately, I couldn’t stay for the whole time — however, the bit that I did stay was incredibly valuable. I thank Katie Rae of the Engine, alongside…

Problem Solving

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Solving Big Problems Soon: Some Food for Thought
Solving Big Problems Soon: Some Food for Thought

Published in students x students

·Nov 3, 2020

Learning To Do The Things I Liked Again

If I could go back to elementary school me and tell her one piece of advice, I would tell her to treasure her time with the easy classes, fun projects, ancillary periods, and of course, recess. …

Self Improvement

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Learning To Do The Things I Liked Again
Learning To Do The Things I Liked Again

Oct 18, 2020

Improving Mobility by Leveraging AI: MobileMe

Team Members: Neha Shukla, Sriya Chintalapalli, Mir Ali Zain, Sarah Naghmi and Hung Huynh. We take many of our daily privileges for granted. Food on our tables, a roof over our heads, water to drink, family to spend time with, and so on. But what if your own body failed…

Learning

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Improving Mobility by Leveraging AI: MobileMe
Improving Mobility by Leveraging AI: MobileMe

Published in students x students

·Sep 22, 2020

Real-Time Reverse Transcription PCR and COVID-19 Diagnostics

Polymerase chain reactions that utilize reverse transcription, or the mechanism where nucleotide sequences are copied from an existing RNA template and synthesized into DNA, have been used for diagnosing people with SARS during the 2002–2004 outbreak in Asia. Now, similar methods have been utilized for the diagnostics of potential COVID-19…

Biotechnology

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Real-Time Reverse Transcription PCR and COVID-19 Diagnostics
Real-Time Reverse Transcription PCR and COVID-19 Diagnostics
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