An independent oversight agency wants to see improved safety systems at the facility at the heart of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium pit mission: PF-4. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board reported what it believes to be gaps in a safety analysis drafted for PF-4 and delays in upgrades to safety systems in a letter […]
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In ‘Biscochito,’ author shares the story of genetic disorder in kid-friendly form
Aditi Kantipuly resists the siloes that separate science and art. A physician now training in preventive medicine at a Canadian university, Kantipuly said, “I like to use different mediums of storytelling — through art, music — to explain science.” Kantipuly recently applied that talent to cerebral cavernous malformation, a rare, often genetic condition in which […]
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Genealogical research IDs likely source of genetic mutation in New Mexico
Like many stories in New Mexico, this one begins more than 400 years ago. It starts with Cristobal Baca, born in 1567 in Mexico City. He arrived in what is now Northern New Mexico around 1600 with his wife, Ana Ortiz, and a group of reinforcement soldiers sent to defend the Spanish colony newly established […]
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Rare genetic mutation that brings threat of brain bleeding unusually common in New Mexico
For Sakura Tafoya, it started with a header. The Santa Fe girl and her family were playing soccer on a fall day in 2021. Sakura, then 4, tried out a move she’d seen other kids do: hitting the ball with her head. Minutes after trying the trick, however, she was out of sorts. She fell […]
