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First, do no harm

Ellie Dombrowski | Thursday, March 7, 2019

Stuart Little, The Rats of Nimh, Charlotte’s Web. Penicillin, meningitis vaccines, antibody therapy. These are sides of a spectrum I could not reconcile. If you are like I was, these two lists first appear unrelated. Much to my dismay, rats have been instrumental in the development of medicine. I learned this when I applied to

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University salutatorian reflects on time at Notre Dame

Tom Naatz | Friday, May 18, 2018

When she was first accepted to Notre Dame, class of 2018 salutatorian Harisa Spahić wasn’t sure she wanted to come to the University. During the spring of her senior year of high school, the self-described “townie”, who was born in Germany to a Bosnian family and lived in Idaho before her family relocated to northern

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Students found company to screen fake medicines

Carolyn Hutyra | Sunday, April 13, 2014

The use of Paper Analytic Devices (PADs) as low-cost, low-technology tests for screening counterfeit and substandard pharmaceuticals resulted from collaborative efforts between the science departments of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College, and now Notre Dame students are in the process of taking this new technology to the market through the entrepreneurial business venture, Imani