by Julie Pollock | Aug 22, 2024 | Academia, Alumni, Blog, Students
I love hearing about what all the UR alumni are up to, but my favorite announcements are when my former research students do something incredible – especially when they earn a Ph.D. Earlier this spring, I got to see Courtney Labrecque’s (BMB ’19)...
by Briseily Cejudo | Jul 18, 2024 | Blog, Research, Students
A Review of Chromosome Structure and Function With the time spent learning about breast cancer in Dr. Pollock’s lab, I have become more interested in learning if X-linked genes are associated with breast cancer. Before we get into the details, let’s take a top-level...
by Morgan Murphy | Jul 9, 2024 | Blog, Research, Students
*September 3, 1928- It was a dark and stormy night.* Truthfully, it likely was not a “dark and stormy night,” but every great superhero needs a dramatic entrance. Upon his arrival home from holiday, Alexander Fleming noticed an unusual guest among his Petri dishes of...
by Paxton Mills | Jun 27, 2024 | Blog, Students
How is your body able to control bleeding?When there is some sort of trauma to a blood vessel that results in bleeding, the body’s normal mechanism to form a blood clot kicks into action. Platelets, a type of blood cell, reach the area in need of a clot and form a...
by Julie Pollock | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog, Conferences, Research, Students
At the start of June, Auden and I traveled to Boston for the annual Endocrine Society Meeting. I must admit I was a little nervous leaving four research students to fend for themselves during the start of the third week of research, but they did well; it only took...
by Lauren Shin | Jun 17, 2024 | Blog, Students
When I came into college last August, the recurring piece of advice that I got from other pre-medical upperclassmen was to do research at the university. To be honest, I didn’t understand why at first. How was it relevant to the MD career I wanted to pursue? I don’t...
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