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Addressing breastfeeding disparities for African American mothers A new study to help identify the best strategies and practices to improve breastfeeding in the African American community leverages the opinions, knowledge, and experiences of subject matter exerts (SMEs) with national and international exposure to policies and practices influencing African American breastfeeding initiation rates. The insight from the SMEs was compared to focus group data with African American mothers who identified facilitators and barriers of breastfeeding initiation. Although th...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Using an experimental technique whereby flowers can be coaxed to form from plant roots, biologists led by the University of Pennsylvania's Doris Wagner uncovered a protein that enables for the... view more  Credit: University of Pennsylvania Cells don't express all the genes they contain all the time. The portion of our genome that encodes eye color, for example, doesn't need to be turned on in liver cells. In plants, genes encoding the structure of a flower can be turned off in cells that will form a leaf. These unneeded genes are kept from becoming active by being...

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, an associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Cinema Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, discusses the largest-ever exhibition of portraits of First Ladies. The exhibit is currently on view at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.