Jane Willenbringâs opening salvo in the documentary âPicture a Scientistâ is one that still brings tears to her eyes. The geomorphologist recalls taking her daughter to work one day and the 3-year-old saying she wanted to be a scientist just like her mom.
âThat was the horrible, sort of lose-it, triggering moment that I ever had. I actually started crying at the time,â said the director of Stanford Universityâs Cosmogenic Isotope Laboratory. âSheâs 3. So, she doesnât understand why Iâm crying. So, I told her they were happy tears. But they werenât just happy tears. I was thinking about someone treating her like trash in 20 years, like I had been treated like trash.â
Streetsblog Chicago has previously reported on the steep drop in transit ridership during the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve been curious as to how Uber and Lyft has fared during this time. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Illinois Economic Policy Institute were commissioned by the Project for Middle Class Renewal to study the effects of the COVID pandemic on ride-hail drivers in a report titled
Researchers found that both the number of ride-hail passengers and the number of drivers fell considerably based on analysis of nearly 78,000 trips completed within Chicago during September 2019 and September 2020. Before the pandemic there were over 110,000 registered ride-hail drivers, 66 percent of whom (72,000) were active and recorded at least one trip during September 2019. In September 2020, there were fewer than 67,000 ride-hail drivers, 44 percent (29,000) of whom recorded at least one ride. Interestingly, the average number of trips by ride-hail dri
Childhood Trauma Has This Effect on Multiple Sclerosis
Childhood trauma could affect the trajectory of multiple sclerosis development and response to treatment in adulthood, according to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers, in
Mice that had experienced stress when young were more likely to develop the autoimmune disorder and less likely to respond to a common treatment, the researchers suggest. However, treatment that activated an immune-cell receptor mitigated the effects of childhood stress in the mice.
Previous work has shown that early-life trauma increases susceptibility to developing more severe MS, but researchers have not been able to determine how, Makoto Inoue, a professor of comparative biosciences at Illinois, shares.
Childhood trauma could affect the trajectory of multiple sclerosis development and response to treatment in adulthood, a new study suggests.Multiple sclerosis is a progressive autoimmune disease in which the body attacks and strips away the .