Visa Hassles May Discourage International Students - The Tech
Source: tech.mit.edu Posted By: Handson 5771 days ago
When Alena Shkumatava opens the door to the “fish lab†at the Whitehead Institute of MIT, she encounters warm, aquarium-scented air and shelf after shelf of foot-long tanks, each containing one or more zebra fish. She studies the tiny fish in her quest to unravel one of the knottiest problems in biology: how the acting of genes is encouraged or inhibited in cells.
The work, focusing on genetic material called micro-RNAs, is ripe with promise. But Shkumatava, a postdoctoral researcher from Belarus,....