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“You’re not going to be able to do biology without understanding programming in the future,” Melissa Wilson, Ph.D., an associate professor of genomics, evolution, and bioinformatics at Arizona State University, said in her 2019 NIGMS Early Career Investigator Lecture. “You don’t have to be an expert programmer. But without understanding programming, I can assert you …
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How do you measure pain? A patient’s furrowed brow, a child’s cries or tears—all are signs of pain. But what if the patient suffers from severe dementia and can’t describe what she is feeling or is a young child who can’t yet talk? Caregivers can help read the signs of pain, but their interpretations may …
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When Margaret Sedensky, now of Seattle Children’s Research Institute, started as an anesthesiology resident, she wasn’t entirely clear on how anesthetics worked. “I didn’t know, but I figured someone did,” she says. “I asked the senior resident. I asked the attending. I asked the chair. Nobody knew.” For many years, doctors called general anesthetics a …
Credit: Actuated Medical, Inc. Maureen L. Mulvihill, Ph.D. Fields: Materials science, logistics Works at: Actuated Medical, Inc., a small company that develops medical devices Second job (volunteer): Bellefonte YMCA Swim Team Parent Boost Club Treasurer Best skill: Listening to people Last thing she does every night: Reads to her 7- and 10-year-old children until “one …