Alicia is a freelance writer and editor with a Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology. Her dissertation work was on the role of SNPs in the human AT1R gene in hypertension. Her B.S. was in Biochemistry. Alicia has teaching experience at the graduate level and still offers her services to students, proofreading literature reviews and dissertations. She is currently the Helium site steward for the Medical Sciences subchannel and volunteers with the Helium Fact-check team.

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Alicia grew up in Indiana and attended graduate school in New York, but she now calls northern New Hampshire home. She enjoys crafts and photography, frequenting many online venues and galleries as she has more than 20 years experience with acrylic paints and has been a part of the online world for more than 12 years, when she setup her first website by hand coding HTML.

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infectious diseases

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"DNA" by James Watson and "Junk Science" by Dan Agin

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McDonalds

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life

Sciences > Disease & Illness The potential of stem cells

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Stem cells have the potential to regenerate tissue, heal wounds, and cure disease.
Stem cells are important in natural development and occur as two types: embryonic and adult. In general, stem cells have the potential of becoming any cell in the human body. Embryonic stem cells are present after fertilization and the first cellular divisions begin to produce an organism as the embryo transitions through 4- and 8-cell blastocyst stages. These few cells eventually become every tissue and structure in the body through cell division and differentiation, called pluripotency. There are also stem...

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