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In what some are calling a “persistent failure” of medical schools to improve diversity, a comprehensive new analysis going back 40 years shows the number of students from the most underrepresented groups in medicine Black males and Native American and Alaskan Native men and women has declined.
While Black male medical students accounted for 3.1% of the national medical student body in 1978, in 2019 they accounted for just 2.9%. Without the contribution of historically Black medical schools, just 2.4% would be Black men. The number of Native American students also declined, accounting for just a fraction of 1% of the nation’s roughly 22,000 medical students in 2019.
How Will We Know If There’s a Covid Supervariant?
India’s severe outbreak shows why the world needs early warning systems for variants that could evade vaccines.
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A lab technician in France works on Covid genome sequencing.
The cognitive dissonance is hard to manage. On the one hand, new Covid cases in the United States are declining as vaccinations rise. A vaccinated summer gleams on the horizon. But internationally, we are at the highest number of new Covid-19 infections ever recorded, the World Health Organization warned last week. And it’s only a matter of time before variants from other outbreaks make their way here.
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Why does Hollywood want to rewrite history and pretend that the last 50-60 years of Civil Rights progress in the United States never occurred? In the latest iteration, CBS sitcom
Bob Hearts Abishola acts as if
1980s Michigan was like the Jim Crow South of the 1950s.
In the episode, TLC: Tunde s Loving Care, on April 26, black head nurse Gloria (Vernee Watson) tells Abishola (Folake Olowofoyeku) her story of how racism in 1980s Michigan prevented her from becoming a doctor.
Gloria: I wanted to be a doctor since I was four years old. My parents thought I was crazy. Nobody in our family had gone to college, let alone medical school. Hmm. But I wasn t gonna let that stop me. I graduated at the top of my class. You couldn t tell me nothing. (Laughs)
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IMAGE: Neurons in the fruit fly brain are made by passing through various differentiation states, and are segregated into unique subtypes based on the age and cell division number of their. view more
Credit: Nigel Michki
Neurons result from a highly complex and unique series of cell divisions. For example, in fruit flies, the process starts with stem cells that divide into mother cells (progenitor cells), that then divide into precursor cells that eventually become neurons.
A team of the University of Michigan (U-M), spearheaded by Nigel Michki, a graduate student, and Assistant Professor Dawen Cai in the departments of Biophysics (LS&A) and Cell and Developmental Biology at the Medical School, identified many genes that are important in fruit flies neuron development, and that had never been described before in that context.