Screwworms coming back into the U.S. cattle herd/stock is going to potentially devastate the industry and jack up meat prices. Worst part is, this was preventable. Trump & DOGE pushed funding cuts on/destroyed agencies that were directly responsible for fighting this pest
For most graduate students in science, a teaching assistantship is mainly a way to pay the bills as they pursue a research career. But for Jasmine Clark, that role allowed her to find her true calling.
“Being a science educator really, really spoke to me,” says Clark, who in 2013 received her Ph.D. in microbiology from Emory University. “I found that my niche was in the classroom, helping people to better understand science.”
Clark’s audience has only grown since then. For more than a decade she has been an instructor at Emory’s nursing school. In 2018, she was elected to the Georgia state legislature, where she has been an advocate for improving health care access and services.
And come January 2027, Clark expects to begin to educate the other 434 members of the U.S. House of Representatives about the importance of using science to set policy after winning a Democratic primary last week in a deep-blue suburban Atlanta district. When seated, she will be the first Black woman in Congress to hold a science Ph.D.
Clark spoke with Science about her background, the roots of her political activism, and what she hopes to accomplish in Washington, D.C. https://t.co/TPhmJscw36
Biologically immortal sea cucumber tissues may provide new opportunities for ethical aging research in regenerative biology, biomedical research, and tissue engineering.
Learn more in @ScienceAdvances: https://t.co/SdjMIfXXH8
Measurements about 10 years ago reported that mitochondrial-DNA, packaged into nucleoids, is regularly spaced. It was amazing to see mitochondria pearl to move those copies around! Kind of like a shimmy in my eyes
Opinion piece: We need to demystify invasivorism as a management strategy.
Marketing invasive species as products will not save threatened ecosystems. In PNAS Front Matter: https://t.co/tVkg24ufBf
We thought we were just studying mesoglea biogenesis…Turns out Nematostella has been hiding a sophisticated backup pressure valve! Work driven by the talented PhD student @SohamBasu13! @EMBL#nematostella#morphogenesis https://t.co/ymYXgc4f1d
An exciting foray for my lab into engineering the rhizosphere with sensor microbial strains! Tour de force synbio by Stanford TomKat fellow now UGA Prof @C_M_Dundas and UGA PhD Gretchen Brinkman!
Rhizobacterial Biosensors Spatially Map Sucrose Exudation https://t.co/s4tNa4N4mf