Advancing racial equity in Brazil’s academia

The effect and fate of most mutations gradually become unpredictable as proteins evolve. Source link

The Indo-West Pacific Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) inhabits coastal areas and rivers in South and Southeast Asia. The global population, listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, has declined by 50% over the past two decades (1) and recently became locally extinct in Vietnam’s Sekong, Sesan, and Srepok Rivers (1)….

Optimized single-nucleus RNA sequencing of eight frozen, banked human tissues helps reveal cell types and mechanisms underlying monogenic diseases and complex traits. Source link

Since taking office as Brazil’s president in 2019, Jair Bolsonaro has greatly weakened the protection of the Amazon and its Indigenous peoples (1). Bolsonaro’s hate speech against Indigenous peoples and policies dismantling the protection of Indigenous lands have led to an increase in invasions and attacks on Indigenous, public, and conservation lands (2), which his…