Tony Hu, Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Biotechnology Innovation at the School of Medicine, developed a new, highly sensitive blood test for detecting SARS-CoV-2 using CRISPR gene-editing technology.
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Walter Isaacson, the Leonard A. Lauder Professor of American History and Values at the School of Liberal Arts, will debut his new book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, during a Zoom webinar on March 15 at 6 p.m. The book provides a gripping account of how biochemist Dr. Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution with CRISPR technology. Trivia Frazier, Tulane alumna and president and CEO of Obatala, will moderate the webinar. Read More
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The Office of Alumni Relations will host its 7th annual women’s leadership conference, Women Making Waves, which will take place virtually on Tuesday, March 2, and Wednesday, March 3. The event’s panel discussions include “Herstories,” in which alumnae will share their journeys to professional success, and “Pathways to Leadership,” a discussion about specific programs, advanced degrees, credentials, etc. that contribute to one’s rise to leadership. The opening session will feature a panel discussion moderated by Board of Tulane Chair Carol Lavin-Bernick, who will be joined by Dr. Regina Benjamin, founder and CEO of Gulf States Health Policy Center and former surgeon general of the United States, and Dr. Karen DeSalvo, chief health officer at Google. The conference is free; however registration is required. Those interested can register for the entire conference and/or the opening session. For more information, click here.
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Science Daily School of Social Work’s Regardt Ferreira and Frederick Buttell are co-authors of a study that found extra stress during the COVID-19 pandemic caused by income loss, and lack of ability to pay for housing and food are linked to increased intimate partner violence.
DeSmog Kimberly Terrell, director of community outreach at the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, says studies, including one she helped conduct in May 2020, provide evidence that long-term exposure to air pollutants should be considered a pre-existing condition for COVID-19.
Her Campus Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, creative writing professor at the School of Liberal Arts, is one of Her Campus’s “6 Books to Read for Black History Month.”
Fox 8 Lisa Morici, professor of microbiology and immunology at the School of Medicine, discusses booster shots being developed for the COVID-19 vaccines due to the emergence of new coronavirus variants.
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