TuesdayNewsdayVol. 4 - Issue 39 - July 24, 2018 | ![UC Santa Cruz](/tuesday-newsday/images/tn-uc-santa-cruz.png) |
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![](/2018/07/images/river-blindness-600px.jpg) Graduate student Laura Chappell, left, and undergraduate Katie Barnes are among the researchers studying filarial nematodes in Professor William Sullivan's lab. (Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta) |
A promising drug to treat river blindness and other neglected tropical diseases is now in preclinical development, the stage at which scientists assess safety and tolerability in animal models. If all goes well, the next step will be phase one clinical trials in humans. |
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![How to meet people with autism halfway](/tuesday-newsday/2018/july-24/images/akhtar-autism-250px.jpg) | In the 'New York Times,' Professor Nameera Akhtar writes that improving the social lives of people with autism will require putting aside assumptions about how social interest is expressed. |
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![Forests have limited capacity to absorb carbon](/tuesday-newsday/2018/july-24/images/forest-sequestration.jpg) | Assistant Professor Kai Zhu's team found that North American forests have reached 78 percent of their capacity to sequester carbon. |
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![The paradox of today's queer youth](/tuesday-newsday/2018/july-24/images/hammack-lgbtq-250px.jpg) | Psychology Professor Phil Hammack discussed queer youth as part of a panel discussion hosted by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. |
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!['Redneck Muslim' now streaming on PBS](/tuesday-newsday/2018/july-24/images/redneck-shane-250px.jpg) | A new short film by Associate Professor Jennifer Maytorena Taylor is one of 25 films currently screening in the 2018 PBS Online Film Festival. |
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![Lick Observatory marks 130th anniversary](/2018/07/images/lick-aerial-400px.jpg) | At the forefront of astronomy since 1888, the observatory's users range from undergraduates to the most senior astronomers in the UC system. |
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