STEM News from Around The World

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  Racial differences in response to breast cancer treatment

  December 6, 2018

  Black women with the most common form of early breast cancer had worse outcomes than white women even after receiving equivalent care, according to a major new study led by Loyola Medicine medical oncologist Kathy [...]
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  Meet the Ghanaian scientist who built InSight, NASA’s latest spacecraft to land on Mars

  November 29, 2018

  On Monday, November 26, 2018, InSight, a spacecraft belonging to America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) landed the on Mars. According to the New York Times, the spacecraft is expected to study the Mars’ [...]
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  Low-cost ‘four-hour’ bamboo house wins top prize

  November 25, 2018

  A 23-year-old designer has won a top £50,000 ($64,385) prize after creating a low-cost bamboo housing unit to address the Philippines’ slum crisis. Earl Patrick Forlales’ design takes just four hours to construct, and at [...]
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  Canadian Minister of International Development visits AIMS and meets Women in Climate Science Fellows

  November 21, 2018

  16 November 2018 – On Tuesday, the Honorable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie visited AIMS Rwanda with a delegation including Mrs. Leslie Norton, Assistant Deputy Minister, Africa, at Global Affairs Canada. [...]
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  A new approach to detecting cancer earlier from blood tests

  November 19, 2018

  Cancer scientists led by principal investigator Dr. Daniel De Carvalho at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have combined “liquid biopsy,” epigenetic alterations and machine learning to develop a blood test to detect and classify cancer at [...]
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  Sucking your baby’s pacifier to clean it may prevent allergies

  November 18, 2018

  If the thought of sucking your baby’s pacifier to clean it and then popping it in your baby’s mouth grosses you out, think again. New research being presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma [...]