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Emory College physicist Daniel Weissman, who specializes in building mathematical models to better understand the rapid evolution of pathogens, has been named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow.
The prestigious fellowship honors Weissman as among the most promising researchers working today. He plans to use the $75,000, two-year award to amplify his latest effort, to examine antibiotic resistance by building a model from a massive database of genomes from
Staphylococcus aureus, an opportunistically pathogenic skin bacterium. The database was constructed by Timothy Read, an infectious diseases professor at Emory University School of Medicine.
“You’re talking about looking at 70,000 genomes, several million bases long, to see if there are patterns that predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance,” Weissman says. “I’m incredibly excited about the opportunity and cross-collaboration.”
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Currently, the Senate of Canada is reviewing Bill C-7 as it seeks to understand the implications of further expanding medical assistance in dying, known as MAiD.
Some of the proposed amendments contained in Bill C-7 are in reply to the 2019 decision of the Quebec Superior Court in
Truchon v. Procureur général du Canada. As a Canadian physician and anesthesiologist working in the United States, this debate is of interest to me. I was a witness in these Senate hearings because I am an expert in the opposition to lethal injection, the most common form of execution in the U.S. To be clear, my expertise is relevant to MAiD not because it is considered akin to the execution of prisoners in its essence, but because the pharmaceutical and medical methods used are quite similar.
Jerry Summers: Before Marjorie
Jerry Summers The nationwide controversy over the winner of the 2020 contest in Georgia’s 14
th Congressional District in the House of Representatives, Marjorie Taylor Greene, doesn’t need to be elaborated on further except to confirm that she won almost 75 percent of the vote as an arch conservative Republican candidate. Said district starts in Marietta and generally follows Interstate 75 northward covering 12 counties to the Tennessee state line in Catoosa County. In 2016 ex-president Donald Trump carried the district with the eighth best showing in the nation and statistics further show that the 14
th District is the 10th most Republican district in America.