Student Wins Sloan Award for Screenplay Exploring Muscular Dystrophy
Laura Alsum is a graduate student in screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She is also the 2014 recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Student…
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Poverty 'Ages' Genes of Young Children Study Shows
The stress of growing up in a poor and unstable household affects children as young as 9 years old on a genetic level, shortening a portion of their chromosomes that…
2014 | Christopher Kelty + Aaron Panofsky – Disentangling Public Participation in Science and Biomedicine
ISG faculty, Dr. Christopher Kelty and Dr. Aaron Panofsky, have published a paper titled “Disentangling Public Participation In Science and Biomedicine” in Genome Medicine. ABSTRACT: Background This article provides a framework for disentangling…
Hummingbird Evolution Is Booming
Hummingbirds took just 22 million years to diversify from a single common ancestor into 338 tiny, colorful species. And they have not finished yet. Evolutionary biologist Jim McGuire of the…
CRISPR Reverses Disease Symptoms in Living Animals for First Time
MIT scientists report the use of a CRISPR methodology to cure mice of a rare liver disorder caused by a single genetic mutation. They say their study (“Genome editing with Cas9 in adult…
Pesticides Make the Life of Earthworms Miserable
Pesticides have a direct impact on the physiology and behavior of earthworms, a Danish/French research team reports after having studied earthworms that were exposed to pesticides over generations. “We see…