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Welcome to the Midwestern Journal of Undergraduate Sciences!  The Midwestern Journal of Undergraduate Sciences is an online publication that advances knowledge of undergraduate life sciences research through research studies and critical reviews of the literature available in an open access forum. Submissions are invited from diverse disciplines and a range of research paradigms that contribute to scholarship for the undergraduate research community as well as the broader field of biology.

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Nucleotide Vaccines

2025-11-12

Nucleic Acid vaccines have made history in recent years, with the Nobel Prize in Medicine being awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman in 2023 for their work in modifying nucleosides for this use. But the first trials of DNA and mRNA as vaccines date back almost half a century. What are the concerns and the promise of these vaccines going forward? And what is it about COVID19 that made this the time to launch their use?

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Current Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025): Midwestern Journal of Undergraduate Sciences: Armoring the Immune System
An image of a knight armoring himself for battle.

Exploring the ways the adoptive T Cell therapy spawned one of the world's most powerful techniques in modern immunotherapy: CAR T Cells.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17161/mjusc.v4i1
Published: 2025-09-22

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