The Native American Community Clinic held a groundbreaking ceremony Friday at the Minneapolis American Indian Center for a future 30,000-square-foot health care and housing development. The clinic’s executive officer and president Antony Stately says the project will serve as a model for transforming health care for Native American people. Stately, who has led the clinic […]
Native-focused health care and affordable housing development breaks ground
The Native American Community Clinic held a groundbreaking ceremony Friday at the Minneapolis American Indian Center for a future 30,000-square-foot health care and housing development. The clinic’s executive officer and president Antony Stately says the project will serve as a model for transforming health care for Native American people. Stately, who has led the clinic […]
Melissa Olson
Meet Melissa Olson Melissa Olson is a reporter for the MPR News Native News Initiative and a contributor to the North Star Journey series. She is also an essayist and community archivist. Her long-form audio documentary “Stolen Childhoods” was produced in collaboration with KFAI community radio and aired statewide on Minnesota Public Radio in […]
Tropical plant native to China reveals antiobesity potential: Scientists discover that Mallotus furetianus, native to Hainan Island, China, has antiobesity effects
Osaka Metropolitan University. “Tropical plant native to China reveals antiobesity potential: Scientists discover that Mallotus furetianus, native to Hainan Island, China, has antiobesity effects.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 4 August 2023. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230804123740.htm>. Osaka Metropolitan University. (2023, August 4). Tropical plant native to China reveals antiobesity potential: Scientists discover that Mallotus furetianus, native to Hainan Island, China, has […]
Gut microbiomes of mouse pups are permanently altered when moms are fed a low-fiber diet while nursing
The first things that mouse newborns touch and eat establishes their native microbiome, which is often influenced by their mother during birth and throughout nursing. Although diet has been a known contributor to obesity in all stages of life, the effects of nursing mothers’ diets is an ongoing investigation. In a paper publishing December 8th […]
Study Leaves Transvaginal Mesh Controversy at Impasse
Transvaginal mesh proved noninferior to native tissue repair for vaginal prolapse but missed the superiority target in an FDA-mandated, postmarket, prospective parallel-cohort study. The 36-month composite treatment success rates were 89.3% with mesh repair and 80.2% with native tissue repair, falling within the prespecified 12% margin for noninferiority but not achieving superiority. However, mesh demonstrated […]
Invasive species and climate change impact coastal estuaries: Biological invasions interact with changing climate in unpredictable ways
Native species in California’s estuaries are expected to experience greater declines as invasive species interact with climate change, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. The study, published in the Ecological Society of America’s journal, Ecology, said these declines are expected not only because of climate-related stressors, but also because of the […]
How a virus packages its genetic material: Simulations could help design nanocontainers used in drug delivery
Each simple RNA virus has a genome, its “native RNA.” This genome dictates how the virus replicates in cells to eventually cause disease. The genome also has the code for making a capsid, the protein shell of a virus that encapsulates the genome and protects it like a nanocontainer. A team led by Roya Zandi, […]