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2025-26, Announcements, education, YIWC

2025 YIWC has concluded!

✨ Congratulations to the Winners of YIR’s Annual High School Science Writing Competition! ✨ We at the Young Investigators Review are thrilled to share the results of this year’s High School Writing Competition—designed to celebrate curiosity, creativity, and the next generation of scientific thinkers. In our largest application pool yet, talented students and aspiring scientists from across the country submitted pieces answering prompts in 1 … Continue reading 2025 YIWC has concluded!

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Disease, Health, Health and Medicine, Medicine and Physiology

Mild Gut Inflammation Can Impact the Developing Brain

Author: Diego Javier, Class of 2026 Figure 1. X-Ray of a newborn with highlight regions displaying areas affected by NEC Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is an intestinal disease that affects around 10% of premature infants in the United States, resulting in either infant mortality or long-term developmental problems such as learning disabilities and behavioral problems in babies that do survive. While it is known that severe … Continue reading Mild Gut Inflammation Can Impact the Developing Brain

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Ecology, Health, Natural World, physiology

The Ethics of Animal Use in Research

Author: Antonia Truta, Class of 2028 Is the use of animals in research for human benefit morally justified? If so, how can experiments maintain ethical integrity while still advancing scientific goals? Professor Marcel Mertz at Hannover Medical School and a diverse range of colleagues, including scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars, explore these questions with a focus on animal models in research. The emerging field of … Continue reading The Ethics of Animal Use in Research

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