Un grupo de investigadores ha descubierto la forma de optimizar el proceso de la fotosíntesis, de modo que los cultivos podrían crecer más rápidamente y ayudar así a combatir el hambre en el mundo. Para conseguirlo, se ha tenido que alterar la estructura interna de la célula vegetal, para lograr que las plantas se.
Scientists take step to improve crops photosynthesis, yields
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May 3, 2021
Anurag Agrawal, the James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Maureen Hanson, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (CALS, Arts and Sciences), have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the academy announced April 26.
The election of 120 members – 59 of whom are women, the most elected in a single year – brings the total number of active members to 2,461.
“The historic number of women elected this year reflects the critical contributions that they are making in many fields of science, as well as a concerted effort by our Academy to recognize those contributions and the essential value of increasing diversity in our ranks,” Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), said in a statement. “I am pleased to welcome all of our new members, and I look forward to engaging with them in the work of the National Academies.
April 29, 2021
Maureen Hanson, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Bernice Grafstein, the Vincent and Brooke Astor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 22.
They are among 252 newly elected members – 55% of whom are women – honored for individual achievements in academia, the arts, business, government and public affairs.
“We are honoring the excellence of these individuals, celebrating what they have achieved so far and imagining what they will continue to accomplish,” said David Oxtoby, president of the academy. “The past year has been replete with evidence of how things can get worse; this is an opportunity to illuminate the importance of art, ideas, knowledge and leadership that can make a better world.
A geneticist’s biggest challenge: Curing his own son Michaela Haas © Ron Davis and his son, Whitney, who has been mostly bedridden for 10 years [Photo courtesy of Ashley. Ron Davis and his son, Whitney, who has been mostly bedridden for 10 years [Photo courtesy of Ashley Haugen]
Palo Alto, California – Whitney Dafoe’s day begins at 2:30pm. His father, Ron Davis, peeks through the keyhole into the 37-year-old’s room. Is he awake?
ABSOLUTELY NO ENTRY is scrawled in red on a handmade sign pinned to the door below a picture of the Dalai Lama. Davis has rushed home from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, to take the afternoon shift. When Whitney raises his left hand, fingers clenched to a fist, that’s Davis’s cue. Whitney is ready for his dad to change his diapers, put ice on his aching belly, and refill the IV-drip.
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