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Biochemistry Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy How She Works Mashable Video Rachelle Crosbie Watson

Meet the biochemist working to cure the most common, lethal genetic disease of childhood

sudshr47 June 1, 2018

Rachelle Crosbie-Watson wears a lot of hats. She is a biochemist, the chair of integrative biology and physiology department at the UCLA College of Letters and Science, and a professor of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. As a researcher she’s dedicated herself to curing the currently incurable: Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a relatively common and deadly childhood degenerative muscle disease. Her lab at UCLA continues to pump out results that they hope will make DMD a distant memory. Read more…

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Cosmology How She Works Mashable Video Stephen Hawking universe

Ever wonder how the universe might end?

sudshr47 May 30, 2018

Katie Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist, meaning it’s her job to think about the greatest mysteries of the cosmos. She specializes in cosmology, following in the footsteps of people like Stephen Hawking, and truly wants to answer the big questions: How was the universe formed and how might it end? In fact, she’s writing a book about different ways the universe might cease to exist—and she’s pretty excited about it. Read more…

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Earthquake Earthquakes How She Works Kasey Aderhold Seismology

Watching the world ripple with an earthquake seismologist in Alaska

sudshr47 May 17, 2018

Kasey Aderhold is an earthquake seismologist with the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), a NSF-backed group that helps conduct and coordinate major seismology projects. They’e currently finishing a major project in which they put seismic sensors all over the United States. Their goal is to better understand earthquakes.

Although she’s based in D.C., Kasey often travels to her home state of Alaska to help set up, monitor, and maintain seismic sensors across the remote Alaskan wilderness. Read more…

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