Scrambled Eggs
AND (hint: base four)
What is DNA?
This software, abbreviated as CAD, is used by engineers to design medical devices and implants.
What is computer-aided design?
Football players use this technology to prevent traumatic brain injury and subsequent neurodegeneration.
What is a helmet?
This common statistical plot shows quartiles and has features in common with a cat.
What is a box and whisker plot?
Awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Watson, Crick, and Wilkins (skipping Franklin), this discovery revealed how genetic information is stored in living systems.
What is the structure of DNA (or the double helix)?
SUNUCLE (hint: center)
What is NUCLEUS?
This molecule, abbreviated as mRNA, carries the instructions to make proteins to ribosomes.
What is messenger ribonucleic acid?
This broad class of memory loss affects over 55 million people globally.
What is dementia?
This periodic plot shows the rhythms of a person’s heart beat.
What is an EKG (ECG)?
The discovery of this peptide used as a continuous treatment in diabetes won the Nobel prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1923.
What is insulin?
ELOTREME (hint: longevity)
What is TELOMERE?
This noninvasive imaging technique, abbreviated as MRI, uses strong magnets to visualize soft tissues.
What is magnetic resonance imaging?
Within the brain, this cell type loses function and its ability to form synapses with neighboring cells in neurodegenerative disorders.
What is a neuron?
This graph is commonly used by materials scientists to determine the rigidity/modulus, elastic region, and plastic region of a material.
What is a Stress-Strain curve?
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Doudna and Charpentier recognized this programmable tool that allows scientists to precisely edit DNA inside living cells.
What is CRISPR (CRISPR-Cas9) gene editing?
PHOLIDA (hint: half)
What is HAPLOID?
This medical test, abbreviated as ECG or EKG, records electrical activity of the heart.
What is an electrocardiogram?
This actor-made-president lived with and raised awareness for Alzheimer’s Disease.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This plot shows reaction rate as a function of substrate concentration to describe enzyme kinetics.
What is a Michaelis-Menten plot?
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognized discoveries that made this vaccine technology possible, dramatically accelerating COVID-19 vaccine development.
What are mRNA vaccines?
NEAPHASA (hint: separation)
What is ANAPHASE?
This imaging technique, known as a PET scan, uses a radioactive tracer to highlight areas in the body with high chemical or metabolic activity.
What is positron emission tomography?
Owing to the inability of many brain cells to regenerate, this type of cell therapy could be used to reverse neurodegeneration.
What is stem cell therapy?
This dimensionality reduction technique transforms a large set of variables into fewer key variables and captures the most significant variance.
What is Principal Component Analysis?
Awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, this technology uses X-rays from different angles to create cross-sectional images of the body.
What is a computed tomography (CT) scan?