A new tool by researchers at the School of Science at IUPUI and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands can predict your hair, skin, and eye color from your DNA data. The system, which is essentially a web app that can accept DNA sequences, compares known color phenotypes to known data and […]
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A deeper look at the Afrofuture costumes of ‘Black Panther’ and the women who brought them to life
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Costume designer Ruth E. Carter and jewelry designer Douriean Fletcher made history together by creating the Afrofuturistic costumes of Black Panther. Their inspiration came from Afrofuturism, which explores an alternate reality for Africa — one that’s technologically advanced and free of outside influences. Read more…
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Britain’s health service uses long Twitter thread to explain why it needs more black people to donate blood
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The NHS, Britain’s national health service, has launched into a long Twitter thread to explain why it’s calling for more black people to donate blood.
Using celebrity GIFs and millennial slang, the Blood and Transplant social media team seemed to be trying to preemptively fend off possible allegations of racism while explaining that blood groups are more or less common in different ethnic groups:
People from Black African and Black Caribbean ethnic backgrounds are also more likely to have the rare subgroup called Ro — about “ten times more likely than a white person,” the NHS said. Read more…
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