Tom Baden

1 week ago | cell.com | Dario Tommasini |Takeshi Yoshimatsu |Teresa Puthussery |Tom Baden |Karthik Shekhar

1Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 2Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA 3Vision Sciences Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 4Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 5Center for Sensory Neuroscience and Computation, Sussex...

Dec 10, 2024 | thedailyrecord.com | Tom Baden

GivingTuesday estimates $3.6B was donated this year, an increase from 2023 U.S. donors gave $3.6 billion on Tuesday, an increase from the past two years, according to estimates from the[...] December 5, 2024

Nov 6, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Dario Tommasini |Takeshi Yoshimatsu |Tom Baden |Karthik Shekhar

AbstractThe tetrapod double cone is a pair of tightly associated cones called the "principal" and the "accessory" member. It is found in amphibians, reptiles, and birds, as well as monotreme and marsupial mammals but is absent in fish and eutherian mammals. To explore the potential evolutionary origins of the double cone, we analyzed single-cell and -nucleus transcriptomic atlases of photoreceptors from six vertebrate species: zebrafish, chicken, lizard, opossum, ground squirrel, and human.

Oct 10, 2024 | thedailyrecord.com | Tom Baden

America’s child care crisis is an ever-pressing reality increasingly affecting the middle class — stretching the wallets of families and slowing the country’s economic growth. Rising costs and growing wait lists for day care centers and nannies make it harder for families to secure reliable and affordable child care. In this challenging landscape, unique solutions such as the federal au pair program stand out as potential lifelines for families scrambling to access trusted childcare.

May 16, 2024 | thedailyrecord.com | Tom Baden

I often refer to the wisdom from the American Bard, Mark Twain, in one of his opuses that one’s technology is another’s magic. A board dinner for my undergraduate College of Liberal Arts that my new guide dog and I recently attended intently explored the intersecting role and value of liberal arts (the pillar of Western civilization) with science and technology. There seems to be a trend, with undergraduate education, that high-impact jobs are felt to be those in STEM.