North America | United States | Medicine

Pioneering Black Woman Physicist Invents Nanotech Treatment That Kills Cancer Cells

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The United States only officially began to outlaw racial segregation in the 1950s, and women have only been given equal academic opportunities at some top institutions since the 1980s. Columbia University, for example, didn’t allow women to apply until 1983—and the other Ivy League schools didn’t allow women until the 1960s and 1970s, themselves. These advancements in academic opportunity have helped to pave the way for women and people of color to contribute even more heavily to social and scientific progress, but African-Americans continue to make up a minority of pioneers in thes
Latin America | Mexico | Medicine

Women-Led Team of Mexican Scientists Develop Cure for HPV

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Researchers at Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) are celebrating a major scientific achievement: a new treatment that they claim can completely cure the human papillomavirus (HPV), helping to curb a leading cause of deadly cancer among women. Led by scientist Eva Ramon Gallegos, the team was able to eradicate HPV in 29 patients through a non-invasive technique known as photodynamic therapy, according to El Universal. The treatment involves the use of a drug called a photosensitizer or photosensitizing agent, alongside a wavelength of light that is used to treat affected are
South Asia | Australia | Health

25-Year-Old Student Discovers Way to Kill Superbugs WITHOUT Antibiotics — Science Freaks Out

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The outlook for humanity is, indeed, bleak. However, thanks to a handful of research students from the University of Melbourne School, we may have hope after all. Ph.D. student Shu Lam, the study’s lead researcher, believes they’ve found a way around antibiotic dependency in the battle against bacteria. “We’ve developed a new class of antimicrobial agents, which are very unique. They come in the form of tiny star-shaped molecules that are made from short chains of proteins,” Lam told VICE. “We found that they are very effective at wiping out [bacterial] infections in mice and
North America | United States | Medicine

This ‘Inspiring’ 90-Year-Old Woman Has Served As A Nurse For Nearly 70 Years

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The year was 1946. Penicillin had only recently become widely available, flu vaccines were a new phenomenon and it would be several years before Watson and Crick would describe the structure of DNA. That year, Florence “Seesee” Rigney started working as a student nurse at the Tacoma General School of Nursing, then part of Tacoma General Hospital in Washington. The job was her lifelong dream. "I love nursing," Rigney said in 2013. "Since I was a little girl, it was something that I always wanted to do." And, boy, has she done it. Rigney is now 90 years old and still a working