Guanylyl Cyclase: The Protein Unlocking Therapy Pathways for Parkinson’s Patients 

By Alexis Park ‘28 Parkinson’s disease (PD) is classified as a chronic neurodegenerative disorder that hinders movement and balance (Parkinson’s Foundation). As the second most common neurodegenerative disorder…

Strokes: A Deep Dive and Insight into BCIs

Fatma Al Arbawi ‘27 Stroke remains one of the top five leading causes of death and morbidity in the United States and the second leading cause of death…

Parallels Between AlphaFold’s Neural Architecture and Human Spatial Reasoning 

Yiran Jiang ’26 AlphaFold, a neural network-based model that predicts a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence, has shown great potential to aid biochemical research and protein…

Revolutionizing Diabetes Treatment: Autologous CiPSC-Islet Transplantation

Alice Wong ‘25 Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic autoimmune condition in which the body’s immune system erroneously targets and destroys β-cells within the pancreas, which are…

The Prospect of Integrating Modularity in Large Language Models

Yiran Jiang ‘26 Since the early 1980s, the concept of modularity has been important in understanding how the mind works (Robbins). Fodor’s concept of modularity suggests that certain…