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Dr. David Muller, dean of medical education at Mount Sinai, believes that including in each medical school class some students who have a strong background in the humanities makes traditional science students better doctors, too.

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A Top Medical School Revamps Requirements To Lure English Majors

12:04pm May 28, 2015

by Julie Rovner

Many of the students at Mount Sinai's medical school in New York majored in English or history, and never took the MCAT. The school sees that diversity among its students as a great strength.

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Mosquitoes Can Smell Inside Your Blood

5:10pm March 25, 2015

by Poncie Rutsch

When malaria parasites infect blood, they manufacture odor molecules that smell sweet to mosquitoes, scientists report. So how do these odors get from the bloodstream to the insects?

Steve Kudlacek is an undergraduate at the University of California, Irvine who helped Professor Greg Weiss develop a way to unboil an egg.

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How Unboiled Eggs Could Help Fight Food Waste

11:05am February 05, 2015

by Alison Bruzek

No yolk: Researchers have discovered how to unboil egg whites. The chemical technique could help the food industry and others utilize more enzymes for cheese or beer with less waste.