Plus: Fossil hotspots, global gun violence, heavy metal chocolate and more
If it shapes our world, we're exploring it at the George Washington University
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RESEARCH AT THE FOREFRONT
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Researchers in GW's Milken Institute School of Public Health published a first-of-its-kind study in Nature Communications showing that people in communities near large warehouses are exposed to 20% more of a traffic-related pollutant that can lead to life-threatening health conditions. The study also found that communities of color are disproportionately affected.
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Researchers in GW's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences published a study in Nature Ecology and Evolution showing the extent to which the concentration of fossil hotspots in regions like the East African Rift System biases our understanding of human evolution.
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GW's Adnan Hyder will chair The Lancet Commission on Global Gun Violence and Health, which will gather over a dozen public health leaders from five continents and multiple disciplines to explore the causes and consequences of gun violence worldwide.
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Researchers in GW's School of Medicine and Health Sciences published a study in Frontiers in Nutrition that finds a disquieting percentage of cocoa products in the U.S. contain heavy metals that exceed guidelines, including higher concentrations in organic products.
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A GW Law professor published a study in the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics showing the links between eviction and negative health outcomes for different populations in the U.S.
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Researchers in GW's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences discovered that a gene that produces an RNA molecule—not a protein—controls where dark pigments are made during butterfly metamorphosis. Using the genome-editing technique CRISPR, the team demonstrated that removing the gene causes butterflies to completely lose the black pigment in their scales. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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