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Regulating Genomic Information: How Algorithms Perpetuate Prejudice

February 25, 2020

Last November, I was able to attend the National Science Policy Network Symposium in Madison, Wisconsin. The goal of this two-day symposium was to understand how many scientific issues (such as climate change and genome-based medicine) disproportionately affect minority and vulnerable populations. One of the workshops I attended discussed how “big genomic data” is handled, […]

Bernat Navarro-Serer ⋅ Perspectives in Research diversity, genes, social justice ⋅

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What Happens to Heart Cells in Space?

December 5, 2019

Heart function is profoundly changed by spaceflight in space-flown animal models and human astronauts. Using human heart cells derived from stem cells, researchers investigated the cellular and physiological processes influenced by microgravity in human hearts.

Yazmin Rovira Gonzalez ⋅ Perspectives in Research Cells, genes, heart, space ⋅

Anna with her siblings

Things My Brother Sam Can’t Talk About

February 20, 2019

Photo credit: Kelly Valeri When my younger brother, Sam, was 14 years old, he went outside, stripped to his white, Fruit of the Loom underwear, tipped over a plastic wagon and yelled, “Uh-oh!” He was re-enacting a scene from the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, though no one in my family knew it […]

Anna Moyer ⋅ A Day in the Life down syndrome, genes, Genetics ⋅

Talia and her mother

The Mity Genome

February 1, 2019

The Metro ride from Foggy Bottom to Bethesda took just about an hour door to door. Each morning, on my way to my first science internship at the National Institutes of Health, and each evening, back to my dorm at George Washington University, I spent my rides reading The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha […]

Joelle Dorskind ⋅ A Day in the Life genes, Genetics ⋅

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