In the span of just two weeks, two Black men were recently found hanging from trees in the Antelope Valley. Some believed they were lynched, arguing that a Black man wouldn’t take his life in that way. The case of Robert Fuller in Palmdale is still under investigation. The family of Malcolm Harsch, who was… Read More
Steven R. Goodman, PhD, vice chancellor for Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is known globally for his four decades of research into the structure and function of cell structures called membrane skeletons. His related research into sickle cell disease led to defining the molecular basis of the irreversibly sickle cell, and… Read More
The violent death of George Floyd has forced the country to confront systemic racism, from courtrooms to boardrooms. On Wednesday, the conversation shifted to racial inequality in the healthcare system. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Medicine hosted a virtual roundtable on structural racism in health care. Also mentioned on: June… Read More
Kerafast Inc., developers of an online platform to facilitate access to unique lab-made bioresearch materials, today announced the availability of the Delta-G-VSV Pseudotyping System for coronavirus research applications. The system, developed by the Michael Whitt laboratory at the University of Tennessee, enables studies of SARS-CoV-2 viral entry and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness at just biosafety level… Read More
In Why Is Top Cyber Security Taking Flight, Cyber Security Hub first noted a striking outcome from our Mid-Year Survey that will further be featured in our Mid-Year Report: 40% of the cyber security community has not changed their mindset in the face of the global pandemic. Another result from the survey referenced in the… Read More
Shelby County health directives No. 6 and No. 7 — instituted on June 15 and June 22, respectively — provide more freedoms for events, restaurants, movie theaters, and live performance theaters than were allowed earlier in the phase. The changes cover most of what a move to “phase three” would have originally meant; the primary… Read More
Physicians warned people in Shelby County about the increasing number of COVID-19 cases Monday. “Whenever you see an increase in numbers like this, it’s worrisome,” the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Dr. Scott Strome said. “There’s no question if this doubles in the next month, everyone will be stressed,” Baptist Hospital infectious disease specialist Dr. Steve… Read More
Late last week, Dr. Jon McCullers took a look at the local hospitalization data and thought, “Welp, that looks really bad.” As can be seen in the graph below, the number of confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations rocketed on June 10, after slowly climbing the two weeks prior. McCullers — an expert on influenza pandemics for the… Read More
