Taylor Barnes

Jan 8, 2025 | cityweekly.net | Taylor Barnes

The following report was originally published by Inkstick, a nonprofit news platform. It is reprinted here with permission. Defense contractor Northrop Grumman will avoid the worst penalties it could have faced for the deaths of two workers from argon gas asphyxiation at a Utah missile plant in 2023 due to a settlement with the state's workplace safety agency that removed the most severe citations from the case, documents obtained by Inkstick through a public records request reveal.

Dec 5, 2024 | inkstickmedia.com | Taylor Barnes

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman will avoid the worst penalties it could have faced for the deaths of two workers from argon gas asphyxiation at a missile plant in 2023 due to a settlement with Utah’s workplace safety agency that removed the most severe citations from the case, documents obtained by Inkstick through a public records request reveal.

Nov 13, 2024 | inkstickmedia.com | Taylor Barnes

I have been up to the dry, shrubby lands of northern Utah’s Great Basin twice recently, first to visit Northrop Grumman’s final assembly plant for the new intercontinental ballistic missile. The facility, which Northrop workers call the Promontory plant, snakes along over six miles of single-lane highway through dunes dotted with bunkers that engineers use to watch fiery missile tests, a dangerous endeavor that has killed at least nine workers over the plant’s nearly six decades of existence.

Nov 12, 2024 | bcm.edu | Taylor Barnes

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine and collaborating institutions report in the journal Cell the discovery of BHB-Phe, a novel compound produced by the body that regulates appetite and body weight through interactions with neurons in the brain. Until now, BHB has been known as a compound produced by the liver to be used as fuel.

Oct 2, 2024 | bcm.edu | Taylor Barnes

Estrogen, the major female ovarian hormone, can trigger nerve impulses within milliseconds to regulate a variety of physiological processes. At Baylor College of Medicine, Louisiana State University and collaborating institutions, researchers discovered that estrogen’s fast actions are mediated by the coupling of the estrogen receptor-alpha (ER-alpha) with an ion channel protein called Clic1.