Since Louisiana's U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson’s elevation to Speaker of the House, thumbnail descriptions of him have said little more than anti-abortion, anti-gay rights and pro-Donald Trump. For a deeper understanding of Johnson, NOLA.com asked his longtime friends how he came to be the person he is today.
ERDU to MSU students: "We need you"
STARKVILLE, Miss. - U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDU) Director David Pittman had a simple message to Mississippi State University student-scientists and engineers this week: “We need you.”
Pittman was encouraging students to consider careers at the Vicksburg-based research unit that supports the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Dozens of ERDC personnel were on campus as part of ERDC Days at MSU, interacting with more than 1,000 students, faculty and staff researchers working on ERDC-funded projects. In addition to being one of the largest employers of MSU engineering graduates, ERDC and MSU have partnered on several large research efforts over the years. For more on ERDC, visit www.erdc.usace.army.mil.
Cure coming for sickle cell?
The only cure for painful sickle cell disease today is a bone marrow transplant. But soon there may be a new cure that attacks the disorder at its genetic source.
On Tuesday, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will review a gene therapy for the inherited blood disorder, which in the U.S. mostly affects Black people. Issues they will consider include whether more research is needed into possible unintended consequences of the treatment.
If approved by the FDA, it would be the first gene therapy on the U.S. market based on CRISPR, the gene editing tool that won its inventors the Nobel Prize in 2020.
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