Sahana Jayaraman

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Cody Boteler |Ellie Wolfe |Sahana Jayaraman

If Secretary of State Marco Rubio follows through on his threat to revoke Chinese student visas, some Maryland colleges could take a hit. More than a third of the state’s roughly 24,000 international students were from China, during the 2023-2024 school year. That’s according to the latest data from Open Doors, a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and run by the Institute of International Education.

1 month ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Sahana Jayaraman |Ryan Little |Ben Conarck

Baltimore ended April with five homicides, the lowest monthly total in recent memory, as looming cuts to federal grants threaten gun violence prevention programs. It marked the lowest total of any month in any year dating back to 2012, according to a Banner analysis of public crime data released on Open Baltimore, which covers 2012 to the present. Mayor Brandon Scott went even further, saying the total was the fewest in any one month in the city’s history.

1 month ago | biorxiv.org | Fengting Wu |Milica Moskovjlevic |Filippo Dragoni |Sahana Jayaraman

AbstractAntiretroviral therapy (ART) halts HIV-1 replication, reducing plasma virus levels to below the limit of detection, but it is not curative due to a reservoir of latently infected CD4+ T cells. In some people living with HIV-1 (PLWH), plasma HIV-1 RNA becomes persistently detectable despite optimal ART. This nonsuppressible viremia (NSV) is characterized by identical, non-evolving HIV-1 RNA variants expressed from infected CD4+ T cell clones.

2 months ago | azcentral.com | Sahana Jayaraman

Phoenix police officers pointed their guns at minors almost 1,600 times over nearly four years – and most of the kids who faced police firearms in the city were children of color, an Arizona Republic investigation found.  The number of gun points at kids rose sharply in recent years: Between 2021 and 2023, gun points at minors more than doubled, the Republic's analysis of police data found.

2 months ago | azcentral.com | Sahana Jayaraman

Jasmin Dodd prayed as she watched Phoenix police officers train their weapons on her 2-year-old son. The swarm of officers positioned themselves in front of her: Uniformed and imposing, they had pointed those same weapons at her moments before cuffing her wrists. They sat her down on the curb alongside her sister-in-law, Ashlee, and her mom, Tracy.