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TORONTO Lineups at vaccine clinics in COVID-19 hotspots show a lack of resources in lower-income neighbourhoods with more marginalized communities, doctors say. This past weekend, Dr. Andrew Boozary helped administer COVID-19 shots to people who lined up around the block at a vaccine clinic in the hard-hit neighbourhood of Jane and Finch in Toronto. âIt couldn t speak more powerfully to the demand that is there in the community [and] in the streets from people,â Boozary told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview on Monday. Lower-income, often racialized communities have been hardest hit with COVID-19 cases throughout the pandemic. âThe neighbourhoods have been set on fire through no fault of their own,â he said, adding that in his view, they have been âbetrayed during the entire pandemic.â
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Illustration by Dorothy Leung, Published 14:38, Apr. 21, 2021
As kids, my younger brother and I would snicker whenever my mother stopped to run her palms over what she thought was an exciting bit of a building. It could have been a limestone handrail at a shopping mall, a granite column at an old bank, or reclaimed wood at a hipster restaurant; sometimes, she would take our little hands and guide us to do the same. To this day, I can walk into a room and estimate its ceiling height because she taught us how to assess the highness and lowness of rooms. I’m also well versed in the slip resistances (a technical term for slipperiness) of a variety of flooring substrates. Believe me when I say that my mother really, really likes buildings.
New implantable tool images brain activity in 3D
Tools that allow neuroscientists to record and quantify functional activity within the living brain are in great demand. Traditionally, researchers have used techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, but this method cannot record neural activity with high spatial resolution or in moving subjects.
In recent years, a technology called optogenetics has shown considerable success in recording neural activity from animals in real time with single neuron resolution. Optogenetic tools use light to control neurons and record signals in tissues that are genetically modified to express light-sensitive and fluorescent proteins. However, existing technologies for imaging light signals from the brain have drawbacks in their size, imaging speed, or contrast that limit their applications in experimental neuroscience.