CZ Biohub

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York Adds Nine New Investigators to Advance Immune Cell Bioengineering for Disease Prevention and Treatment

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York (CZ Biohub NY named for its founders Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife Priscilla Chan) has announced the addition of nine new investigators to its expanding team of leading researchers. The new cohort hails from prestigious institutions including Columbia University, The Rockefeller University, and Yale University. These researchers will lead […]

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Why Everyone Should Be Religious’

There’s a familiar story our society tells itself about the history of religion. It goes like this: Since the dawn of time, humans have held superstitious beliefs about a divine creator or a pantheon of gods who created and ruled the universe. These beliefs went mostly unchallenged for millennia, until just a few centuries ago […]

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Rocky Mountains

Rocky Mountain Snowpacks Found Contaminated by Mercury and Heavy Metals from Regional Mining, New Study Reveals

Snowpacks in the Rocky Mountains, essential for supplying water to communities across the American West, are being contaminated by mercury and other toxic metals carried by winter storms, according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the May issue of Environmental Pollution. The research highlights how atmospheric circulation spreads mining-related pollutants across vast distances, raising […]

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Feeling Guilty Over a Remarkable Book

I couldn’t help feeling a weird sense of guilt as I read Elly Katz’s new book, “From Scientist to Stroke Survivor: Life Redacted.” Elly has spent most of her life struggling with physical pain. In a piece we published in The Journal five years ago, she wrote: “I crafted this autobiographical sketch while braced in […]

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