Rising Black Scientists Awards winners embrace womanhood in
Cell essays
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Essays from the winners of the Cell Press and Cell Signaling Technology (CST) Rising Black Scientists Awards appear February 18 in the journal
Cell. The winners, undergraduate
Olufolakemi Fola Olusanya (@fola olusanya) of Howard University and postdoctoral fellow
Chrystal Starbird (@drstarbird) of Yale University, write about their personal missions to create a more supportive future for the next generation of Black women scientists. The essays were selected from a pool of
Molecular biologist Andrew Holland receives President s Frontier Award
The $250,000 Johns Hopkins award recognizes scholars who are on the cusp of becoming leaders in their fields By Saralyn Cruickshank / Published Feb 15, 2021
Cell division is the fundamental process for life. But when it goes awry, life itself can be threatened.
The fragile balance of centrosomes within animal cells and the cellular functions these organelles control are essential to a form of cell division called mitosis. That s where molecular biologist Andrew Holland focuses his research. We ve been trying to understand if there are differences in the way healthy cells and tumor cells divide, and if we can exploit those differences in therapies to selectively destroy dividing tumor cells and spare the healthy cells, said Holland, an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and the Department of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Schoo
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Fact check: No evidence linking masks to oral bacteria and to lung cancer; article refers to study that did not involve masks
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Users on social media are sharing an article that claims long-term mask-wearing “breeds microbes that infiltrate the lungs and contribute to advanced stage lung cancer”. As alleged evidence, the article refers to a study that did not involve mask-wearing and does not makes this claim. The authors of the study say that there’s no scientific evidence to back the article’s misinterpretation of their actual results.
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