Higher education in the global North, and exported elsewhere, is complicit in driving the
planet’s socio-ecological crises by teaching how to most effectively marginalize and plunder …

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is an autosomal dominant condition with a worldwide incidence
of ∼1 per 2500 to 3000 individuals. Caused by a germ-line–inactivating mutation in the …

The gene responsible for Friedreich's ataxia, a disease characterized by neurodegeneration
and cardiomyopathy, has recently been cloned and its product designated frataxin. A gene …

Several neurological diseases, including Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies,
are characterized by the accumulation of α-synuclein phosphorylated at Ser-129 (p-Ser-…

Mutations in the nuclear gene encoding the mitochondrial protein frataxin are responsible for
the neurological disorder Friedreich ataxia (FA). Yeast strains with a deletion in the frataxin …

The promise of quantum computing lies in harnessing programmable quantum devices for
practical applications such as efficient simulation of quantum materials and condensed matter …

Alpha-synuclein protein is strongly implicated in the pathogenesis Parkinson's disease.
Increased expression of α-synuclein due to genetic multiplication or point mutations leads to …

Infantile globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD, Krabbe disease) is a fatal demyelinating disorder
caused by a deficiency in the lysosomal enzyme galactosylceramidase (GALC). GALC …

Landsat satellites have been operating since 1972, providing the longest continuous
observation record of the Earth's land surface. Over the past half century, the Landsat user …

Cerebral palsy will affect nearly 10% of the 60 000 very low-birth-weight infants born in the
United States in the next year, and an even greater percentage will display some form of …