Every day in India, more than 4 million girls aged between seven and fourteen fail to show up at school. Why? In almost every case, the reason is simply their gender. As Husain puts it, for many families, “it’s rooted very much in a mindset where you believe that a goat is an asset and a girl is a liability.”
Citizen scientists, playing a special video game called Foldit, have been able to successfully design synthetic proteins. The research team, led by the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington School of Medicine, published its results recently in the journal Nature.
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance teams up with Living Goods and Last Mile Health to scale up immunization across Africa through digitally-empowered community health programs.
Joanne Chory is tackling climate change as a biologist: by engineering plants to grab much more carbon from the air than they already do.
The Bail Project
More and more women are being incarcerated in the US — before they’ve been found guilty of crimes. Here’s how the bail system hits women and what can be done.
One Acre Fund received a catalytic infusion through The Audacious Project. Andrew Youn shares how this has helped the organization expand its impact.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Check out this issue of WHOI's magazine, Oceanus, to get an inside look at all their efforts to explore the twilight zone.
Sightsavers
In the year since Caroline Harper gave a TED Talk about plans to eliminate trachoma, Sightsavers' has continued to fight preventable diseases, providing more than 113 million treatments in 2018 alone.
You may think of the twilight zone as a TV sci-fi series, but it also refers to that deep, dark, mid layer of the ocean that has been largely ignored —until now.
Today, the Community Health Academy opens registration for its first leadership course, offered in partnership with HarvardX and edX.
The international charity, Sightsavers, has just launched an ambitious appeal to raise money to fund the final push to eliminate the blinding eye disease, trachoma.
We’ll send you news and updates on how ideas are taking shape.
