Coyote Ridge near San Jose, California
Coyote Ridge, a grassland near San Jose, California, has several endemic plant species.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DEB 0918715.]
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Mindfulness as a Support for Healing Conversations and Actions Toward Social Justice and Equity
From personal to structural, racism may be understood as an endemic public health threat with crisis-level effects. Mindfulness practices, originating from numerous cultures and spiritual traditions, are an active area of scientific investigation for health and other benefits. Mindfulness is often studied for its internal effects in individuals. However, many important research questions remain underexplored. For example, how might mindfulness practices be applied to disrupt bias and minimize racism ’ s harms? How might the science of mindfulness be directed toward further exploring their external, interpersonal, and sys...
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Director's Seminar: Unraveling the mechanisms of immunity to malaria
NIH Director's Seminar Series
Approximately 500 million cases of P. falciparum malaria occur annually among the world ’ s poorest populations, claiming the lives of nearly a million children each year in Africa alone. The development of a malaria vaccine is widely viewed as a key step toward malaria control and possibly eradication, yet current malaria vaccine candidates confer only partial, short-lived protection at best. Optimism that a highly effective malaria vaccine can be developed stems in part from the observation that humans can acquire immunity to malaria through repeated P. falciparum infections. However, the...
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The Promise and Pitfalls of HIV Treatment-as-Prevention: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from South Africa
2018 ODP Early-Stage Investigator Lecture Sponsored by the NIH Office of Disease Prevention
The Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) is pleased to announce Dr. Jacob Bor as the winner of the ODP Early-Stage Investigator Lecture. Dr. Bor is an Assistant Professor and Peter T. Paul Career Development Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. His presentation is titled: “ The Promise and Pitfalls of HIV Treatment-as-Prevention: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from South Africa. ”
Dr. Bor ’ s research applies the analytical tools of economics and data science t...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Team goes house to house to learn where new vaccine works best (Image 2)
Malaria is endemic in Malawi, especially in the areas around Lake Malawi, the 350-mile-long lake that sits between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. Malawi has a high infant mortality rate, declining life expectancy and an estimated 1 million orphans, mostly because of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Diversity of parental strategies in glassfrogs (Image 6)
A female glassfrog (Ikakogi tayrona) with egg clutch developing inside her (visible through her body wall). This species, endemic to the isolated Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Mountains of Colombia, is the only known glassfrog with prolonged female care. [Image 6 of 15 related images. See ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Remote-sensing data shows hundreds more species risk extinction (Image 2)
The purplish-mantled tanager is found only in western Columbia and Ecuador. It prefers mountain cloud forests and feeds on small fruits. As with other birds in this endemic-rich region, it's endangered due to habitat loss. [Image 2 of 2 related images. Back to (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Remote-sensing data shows hundreds more species risk extinction (Image 1)
The Munchique wood wren is endemic to Columbia and was described just a decade ago. It is critically endangered and is affected by ongoing deforestation in its small habitat range. [Image 1 of 2 related images. See Image 2.]
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Burkitt lymphoma: a model of polymicrobial carcinogenesis and global oncology
NIH Director's Seminar
It has been just over 50 years since the description of Burkitt Lymphoma (BL) as an unusual tumor affecting jaws of African children. Seminal discoveries linked to BL includ Epstein-Barr virus, the first human virus linked to a human cancer, the linkage of BL to Plasmodium falciparum malaria, chromosomal translocations involving c-myc and immunoglobulin promoter elements, and demonstration of rapid and curative response to chemotherapy. Dubbed the Rosetta stone of cancer, BL became a complex model for carcinogenesis involving poly-microbes, immunity and host-genetics.
Fifty years later, many fundam...
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