Scientista at Loyola University MD

03/03/2017

Spring Break is finally here!

02/24/2017

Happy Friday Everybody!

12/02/2016

12/02/2016

The end of the semester is approaching!! Join us for our last potluck brunch of 2016 on Sunday December 4th in DS257 at 12pm. Come reflect on the semester or get advice for finals! Hope to see you there :)

11/03/2016

Also, don't forget to change the clocks Saturday night/Sunday morning!!! (and enjoy the extra hour of sleep)

11/03/2016

Hi All!

Our monthly brunch will be THIS SUNDAY, November 6th at 12:00pm in Donnelly 257. Feel free to bring snacks/treats and come prepared with any questions you have about classes/teachers/fundraising ideas and more!

10/30/2016

Click the link below for a neat infographic on some of the most important drug discoveries the medical field has seen!



http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/important-drug-discoveries-in-medicine-37066/

10/25/2016

Some great advice about how to save $$ as a college student/young adult:

http://www.scientistafoundation.com/lifestyle-blog/money-saving-life-hacks

Comments? Leave them below!

10/25/2016

With class registration approaching, feel free to ask us about any class/professor recommendations - Some of the best advice you can get is from your peers and classmates! :)

10/25/2016

As the body’s chemical clearinghouse, the liver is prone to drug-induced injury. Detecting liver damage, though, is complicated because the standard protein biomarkers of liver damage are expressed throughout the body; they don’t necessarily reflect what’s going on in that organ. Now, by focusing on only those proteins expressed at high levels in the liver, researchers have identified a panel of blood biomarkers that detect acetaminophen-induced liver injury better than the standard medical test (J. Proteome Res. 2016, DOI:10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00547).

Read the full article below!

https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/10/better-blood-test-liver-damage.html

-C&EN News

As the body’s chemical clearinghouse, the liver is prone to drug-induced injury. Detecting liver damage, though, is complicated because the standard protein biomarkers of liver damage are expressed throughout the body; they don’t necessarily reflect what’s going on in that organ. Now, by focusing on...

10/14/2016

We had a successful Scientista bake sale with some yummy treats on Tuesday afternoon! Thank you for all of the help and contributions!

10/09/2016

"The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, 71, a cell biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology 'for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.'"

-C&EN News


Read the full article below:

http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/10/Yoshinori-Ohsumi-wins-2016-Nobel-Prize-in-Physiology-or-Medicine.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=CEN

The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, 71, a cell biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.”