Volume II Interdisciplinary Sciences

From Zip Code to Health Code

How the Social Determinants of Health Limit Access to Care

Written by: Srikar Kolluru | Edited by: Miles Lee | Graphic Design by: Benjamin Phan

In 1998, biologist James Alexander Thomson published his research on Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESC), kickstarting arguably one of the most controversial and medically impactful scientific disciplines of this century. Since then, Stem Cell Therapy has been touted as a cure-all, a medical phenomenon that would transform the field of regenerative medicine as we know it.