“World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean,” an exhibition that challenges fixed and familiar notions of places like Africa, opens Oct. 21.
The findings may eventually lead to researchers discovering a new way to control the proteins found at synapses and, in turn, treat diseases characterized by synaptic dysfunction.
The results could have implications for treating cancer, when people’s blood-forming stem cells may be depleted, and for people undergoing transplant surgery.
Studies sometimes erroneously target biological or cultural characteristics of minorities as the root cause of the disease, but miss the true cause, explains UCLA professor Chandra Ford.
Artist Lauren Halsey and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors discuss the displacement of low-income communities and the prison-industrial complex.