Rosanna Fugate described her improbable relationship with Jackie Chang as a “learning journey.” “Let’s start with the fact that to my knowledge, when we met, Jackie was 100 percent straight,” said Ms. Fugate, 34, the chief operating officer at Thistle and Spire, an online lingerie brand based in New York. “Despite the increasing frequency of…
Ms. Barkley provided a hint. “She had mentioned to me that she saw someone on TV propose with a Ring Pop,” Mr. Hoffman said. “She was subtly saying that if I want to propose and I don’t have a ring, she would accept a Ring Pop.” By spring, though, Mr. Hoffman had a better plan…
Laird Elizabeth Nelson moved to Seattle, sight unseen, in 2015 to work as an in-house lawyer at Amazon. As a newcomer, she heard the common refrain “Seattle residents are friendly and nice to you but will freeze you out.” Local residents have long had a reputation for keeping to themselves. It’s known as the Seattle…
April Bartle, 19, a student at the University of Michigan-Flint, tried to live with her parents in her childhood home in Sandusky, Mich., when her college switched to remote learning last spring. “It was hard to find privacy, especially at the end of the day when I like to decompress alone,” she said. “They really…
Amber Morino, 34, almost missed out on meeting her now-husband after a friend recommended setting up the two. Upon finding out she was being hooked up with a TV writer and a creator of “Mixed-ish,” Ms. Morino turned down the gesture, prematurely deciding Peter Saji, 42, wouldn’t be her type. “I was like, ‘No, he’s…
The children’s clothing section at Uniqlo in China has gained an unexpected new clientele: adult women. In the latest viral challenge to sweep Chinese social media, women pose for dressing-room selfies in children’s T-shirts from the Japanese fashion giant. The trend has ignited a heated debate about whether it promotes body shaming, with experts raising…
Time passed. Bruises appeared, disappeared and reappeared on my limbs. I shrunk some more. Most days my clothes covered the shrinkage and distracted from the exhaustion. I saw other doctors: two surgeons, three oncologists, an integrative medicine physician, a reiki expert. Finally, in a move my former self would have called crazy, I enlisted the…
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Low representation of minority groups in public genomic databases may affect therapy selection for Black patients with cancer, according to new Mayo Clinic research published in npj Precision Oncology. The researchers investigated the use of genomic databases and found that tumor mutation burden was significantly inflated in Black patients compared to White…
If it seems like your stomach has a mind of its own, you’re not wrong. University of Cincinnati assistant professor Ashley Ross says your body is full of neurons that regulate digestion, inflammation and a host of other biological processes. In her chemistry lab in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences, she is studying the…
BOSTON – Researchers have used a genetic engineering strategy to dramatically reduce levels of tau–a key protein that accumulates and becomes tangled in the brain during the development of Alzheimer’s disease–in an animal model of the condition. The results, which come from investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Sangamo Therapeutics Inc., could lead to…