Study to examine the effect of police violence on the birth outcomes for Black infants
Associate Professor Rachel Hardeman has launched a first-of-its-kind, five-year study to investigate the association between racialized police violence and the occurrence of preterm birth and low birth weight among Black infants.
Charlie Plain |
April 14, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (04/14/21) Black women in the U.S. are twice as likely to experience a preterm birth, a low birth weight infant, or the death of a child before age one compared to white women. This racialized pattern of adverse reproductive outcomes has endured for as far back as scientists are able to study. The intractability of this problem suggests the root cause is structural racism the ways in which societies foster discrimination by reinforcing inequitable systems that in turn reinforce discriminatory beliefs, values, and distribution of resources. University of Minnesota School of Public Health Associate Professor Rache
Karachi: Sindh Governor Imran Ismail recently visited ‘the world’s longest restaurant on wheels’ in Karachi.
The mobile restaurant has been providing free meals twice a day. The people are also allowed to take away as many parcels of free meals as they like for their family members who are not able to reach the restaurant.
The restaurant is housed in a shipping container specially equipped to be used as a kitchen and dine-in facility. A non-profit JDC Foundation Pakistan has been running this novel charitable venture since the start of Ramadan. Sindh Governor Imran Ismail tries his hand at frying samosas in the mobile restaurant s kitchen.
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Breaking egg barrier: A sperm story
Sperm doesn’t shift into high gear in mammals just to show off, new research shows. It originally needed that extra speed to break the egg barrier.
Later on, evolution enabled sperm to use its souped-up swimming to navigate tricky reproductive pathways even before reaching the egg.
That is the finding of a new study led by Jean-Ju Chung, an assistant professor of cellular and molecular physiology at the Yale School of Medicine. The study appears in the journal Cells.
In her previous work, Chung has looked at the molecular structures and mobility of sperm in placental mammals such as mice and humans. Placental mammals are distinguished by the presence of a placenta that sustains the fetus during development.