Compared to other Latinx/Hispanic, White/Caucasian, and Black/African American adolescents, Asian American adolescents experience higher levels of anxiety and reach the clinical threshold more frequently.
Have you ever sat down to research a topic in science, typed your keywords into a research database and been greeted with paywalls, read-only PDF’s and having to endlessly type in your institutional login to check if what you thought was a promising abstract is relevant to your work?
Intersectionality, a term coined by Dr. Kimberelé Crenshaw, refers to the idea that systems of oppression are inherently bound together, and thus create singular social experiences for people who bear the force of multiple systems. In her TED Talk on the urgency of intersectionality, Crenshaw explains that being both a person of color and a woman is strikingly different than being either a woman or a person of color.
Clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeats- or the far catchier CRISPR for short is often described as ‘precise molecular scissors’. Parts of the system were first noted over 30 years ago but only recently has it been put together as an interesting example of bacteria protecting themselves against viruses. Having genetically modified bacteria before, I was curious to try the new technology myself so I ordered the basic CRISPR kit sold by The Odin and tried it out in my kitchen!
