Sandeep Ravindran

Oct 24, 2024 | science.org | Sandeep Ravindran

This story is part of an ongoing News series about global equity in science. Read moreWhen Leslie “Leke” Hutchins presented his data at a scientific meeting in August 2023, he was met with some consternation. A University of California (UC), Berkeley Ph.D. student in conservation biology and a Kānaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian), Hutchins had studied the diversity of invertebrates such as insects and spiders on Native Hawaiian coffee plantations.

Oct 16, 2023 | technologyreview.jp | Sandeep Ravindran

生物工学／医療 Insider Online限定 The quest to show that biological sex matters in the immune system 男女の免疫応答がどのように異なるか。その違いが病気や治療にどう影響するのか。長年、重要ではないと考えられてきた生物学的な性差をめぐる研究が、注目を浴びるようになってきた。 by Sandeep Ravindran2023.10.17 0 サブラ・クラインは、性別の重要性を深く認識している。ジョンズ・ホプキンス大学での博士研究で、クラインは性ホルモンが脳や行動に与える影響について学んだ。「私は素朴に、こう思っていました。ホルモンが代謝や心臓、骨密度など、多くの生理学的過程に影響を与える可能性があることは誰でも知っている。免疫系にも影響を与えているに違いない」と、クラインは言う。...

Sep 17, 2023 | nature.com | Sandeep Ravindran

Ana María Cárdenas’s first promotion at the medical-technology firm Becton, Dickinson and Company in Sparks, Maryland, came in September 2021, two years after joining as a research and development (R&D) senior manager. Last March, she moved from her associate director role to a position as a senior director in global medical affairs.

Jul 22, 2023 | blog.sciencenet.cn | Phie Jacobs |Jon Cohen |Sandeep Ravindran |Paul Voosen

Weekly Headlines (excerpts)1. Curry may have landed in Southeast Asia 2000 years ago By Phie Jacobs | Fri, 21 Jul 20232. Is a ‘polyepidemic’ humanity’s next big threat? Childhood vaccine crusader shares concerns for future By Jon Cohen | Thu, 20 Jul 2023 3. Killer whale moms protect their sons from fights with other whales By Phie Jacobs | Thu, 20 Jul 2023 4. AI often mangles African languages. Local scientists and volunteers are taking it back to school By Sandeep Ravindran | Thu, 20 Jul 2023 5.

Jul 20, 2023 | science.org | Sandeep Ravindran

Share: Imagine joyfully announcing to your Facebook friends that your wife gave birth, and having Facebook automatically translate your words to “my prostitute gave birth.” Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Porto, says that’s what happened to a friend when Facebook’s English translation mangled the nativity news he shared in his native language, Hausa. Such errors in artificial intelligence (AI) translation are common with African languages. AI...