FARMKENYA INITIATIVE
Barely a year ago, Synthiah Opuge was living her dream.
Opuge had a job she loved - she worked as an air hostess with Smartlynks Airline based in Riga, Latvia but this is no more. She is now starting a new life at Goma village in Bondo, Siaya County, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
Opuge, 44, is among many other Kenyans who have been forced to go back to the drawing board as the pandemic brought their jobs to an end.
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“East or West, home is best, and I have decided to come back home and venture into farming using the skills I borrowed from abroad,” she said.
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On Monday, a sightseeing helicopter in Iceland spotted the Fagradalsfjall volcano’s newest fissure spewing steam and lava, the Associated Press reports.
The Icelandic Department of Emergency Management immediately directed volcano-watching tourists to evacuate the area as scientists evaluated the danger. Local authorities announced on Tuesday that eruption-viewing areas would reopen at 6 a.m. local time on April 7.
The eruption at Fagradalsfjall began on March 19. It marked the volcano’s first eruption in about 6,000 years and southwest Iceland’s first eruption in 800 years. Thousands of visitors have trekked out to the two craters to watch the lava flow despite freezing temperatures. (Some scientists even took the opportunity to cook hotdogs on the cooling lava, Michele Debczak reports for
A Swiss Army Knife for Genomic Data
April 5, 2021Caltech
A good way to find out what a cell is doing whether it is growing out of control as in cancers, or is under the control of an invading virus, or is simply going about the routine business of a healthy cell is to look at its gene expression. Though a vast majority of cells in an organism all contain the same genes, how those genes are expressed is what gives rise to different cell types the difference between a muscle cell and a neuron, for example.
In the last decade, technologies to measure gene expression in individual cells have revolutionized biology. No longer do biologists need to average out gene expression over many cells within tissues; now they can detect which genes are active in each cell at any time.
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