The Record

New therapeutic food aims to help malnourished children

Researchers at the School of Medicine and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh, are developing a new approach to address childhood malnutrition. They are designing therapeutic foods aimed at repairing the gut microbiomes of malnourished children.

Self-managed teams lead to much lower pay for women

Researchers from Olin Business School studied self-managed teams and found that they tend to create pay inequality. Women “consistently receive bargaining outcomes below their productivity level, while men are consistently overcompensated,” the researchers wrote.

Exposing ‘racial outsourcing’ in health care institutions

Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield’s new book exposes how hospitals, clinics and other institutions participate in “racial outsourcing,” relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians and physician assistants to do “equity work” — extra labor that makes organizations more accessible to communities of color.

Link between logging road incursion, poaching found

Logging road construction in Western Equatorial Africa has accelerated over the last two decades and has led to a dramatic decline of intact forest lands in the region, according to research from Arts & Sciences.

Mapping mustard: Scientists reveal origin of bitter taste

Biologists in Arts & Sciences have mapped the crystal structure of a key protein that makes the metabolites responsible for the bitter taste in cruciferous plants like mustard and broccoli. The results could be used to manipulate crops for nutritional and taste benefits.