Claudia Ortega

Claudia is an Biology graduate student at Georgia Tech. She loves photography, traveling, baking, and swimming. In her spare time she enjoys swimming, watching soccer, exploring new places and hanging out with friends. She is excited to research and learn new things in the world of science.
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Infectious Diseases, Immune System and Vaccines

Since ancient times the causes of severe infectious diseases in humans have been puzzling to people. Specifically, the recurrence of outbreaks, the severity of...

Researching the Anterior Cruciate Ligament

This semester I took a course called Locomotion Neuromechanics. Like me, you might think that it would be a course where you would learn...

Too Hot to Handle

As my previous article mentioned, this will be focused on what my role in The Devil Wears Science and what my group had accomplished...

BTS: The Devil Wears Science

Whew! That was a rollercoaster of emotions. It has been a couple of weeks since our Atlanta Science Festival (ASF) event, The Devil Wears...
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The Rise to Prominence of SIR Models in Infectious Diseases: The...

Introduction The use of a system of differential equations to model the epidemiological dynamics of diseases across human populations has lately gained prominence. Several scholarly...
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Adventuring on Mi Teleférico

Traveling through the aerial space is how I moved across the city during my visit to La Paz, Bolivia, last summer. No, I do...
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Drinks and Science: Science Speakeasy

It was the evening of March 12 and the STEMcomm VIP team were in preparation mode for the Science Speakeasy. The Science Speakeasy was...
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The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (2019-nCoV) Outbreak that Everybody is Talking...

People have different preferences for how they want to follow what is going on around the scientific world without having to spend too much...
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Understanding the Use of CRISPR in Humans

CRISPR, an anacronym that stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,” is a concept becoming quite ubiquitous in most biology classes and rapidly...