Essey Tesfai
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The annual influenza season: The history behind the infamous virus - The Tufts Daily (opens the original)
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Every fall, right around the time Tufts students trade shorts for sweaters and Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center starts to push extra soup, an old and unwelcome guest shows up on campus: the flu. It happens so reliably that it’s easy to forget influenza’s strange, sometimes tragic history, one that stretches back centuries and has quietly shaped the way we think about disease and public health. “Influenza” is actually derived from the Italian word “influentia,” linking it to an old belief that outbre
Dissertation Diaries: Jodee Frias - The Tufts Daily (opens the original)
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This installment of Dissertation Diaries highlights Jodee Frias, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering. Frias studies the brain using near-infrared spectroscopy, a technique that uses red and near-infrared light to measure blood flow in the brain and measure its responses to stimuli. She describes the technology as “an Apple Watch for your brain.” Frias’ research focuses on one of the challenges that comes with this approach to technology. Light must travel through the scalp and
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