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A voter fills in a ballot on a voting machine during Election Day voting at Vivint SmartHome Arena in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Utah’s Independent Redistricting Commission is hoping to begin meeting in April to start work on a plan to redraw political boundaries.
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SALT LAKE CITY What has historically been completed by partisan hands behind closed doors every 10 years, the redrawing of Utah’s political boundaries appears to be headed to a more open process as the newly organized Utah Independent Redistricting Commission will hold its first meeting today.
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A new study by Stanford University biologists finds an explanation for the idea that physical characteristics such as skin pigmentation are only skin deep. Using genetic modeling, the team has found that when two populations with distinct traits combine over generations, traits of individuals within the resulting admixed population come to reveal very little about individuals ancestry. Their findings were published March 27 in a special edition of the
American Journal of Physical Anthropology on race and racism. When two founding groups first come together, a visible physical trait that differed between those founders initially carries information about the genetic ancestry of admixed individuals, says Jaehee Kim, a postdoctoral research fellow in biology at Stanford and first author of the study. But this study shows that after enough time has passed, that s no longer true, and you can no longer identify a person s genetic ancestry based only on such traits.
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Chelsea Merta of St. Louis contracted the coronavirus months ago and still deals with fatigue almost daily.
When Christine Ruder became sick with the coronavirus last fall, the Rolla elementary school teacher experienced a “bingo card of coronavirus symptoms.” She had fever, hives and stomach problems.
After a while those symptoms went away, but they were replaced with new ones, like difficulty finding words.
“I couldn’t think of common everyday objects,” she said. “I need to get that stuff out of the fridge. What do you call that stuff? It’s white? Oh, milk!”
Ruder is one of the many people who doctors say have “long COVID,” a group of symptoms that persists for weeks or months after a person has recovered from the initial infection.
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