Tag: Nature

What are your expectations for health equity?

Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage (AANHPI) groups in the US have been working to improve health outcomes of their communities, researchers said. “The data we have doesn’t tell the whole story, it just tells part of the story,” researchers told Nature. They found that AANHPI groups had a higher incidence of cancer and disease than their non-AANHPI counterparts.

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The monkey survived for two years after a pig transplant

A study of gene modification in live pigs by eGenesis 69 genes has shown that pig hearts and kidneys can function in people who’ve been declared legally dead. The team transplanted pig hearts into two living people, and demonstrated that pig hearts and kidneys can function in people who have been declared legally dead. The study was published in Nature.

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Discrimination has made it difficult for people of color to live in urban areas

Urban heat islands are more expensive to live on than white or richer areas, according to a study published in Nature. It found that the average person of colour lives in census tracts with higher summer daytime SUHI [surface urban heat island] intensity than non- Hispanic whites in all but six of the 175 largest urbanised areas in the continental US.

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