Shalina Chatlani
Science and Technology ReporterShalina Chatlani covered science and technology; her beat included issues ranging from alternative energy to STEM education. Before coming to KPBS, Shalina was a fellow for Nashville Public Radio, covering environmental and education news. While there, she focused on bringing diverse voices to the air and finding stories on issues of diversity and equity. Shalina also created and co-hosted her own weekly show on higher education and social justice for community radio station WPFW in Washington, DC. She also served as associate editor for a business to business online publication called Education Dive. She was also a contributing reporter for the English-speaking online newspaper, The Rio Times, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Shalina earned an undergraduate degree in science, technology and international affairs from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her master's degree is in science communication, also from Georgetown.
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The San Diego region is one of nine jurisdictions approved by the Federal Aviation Administration to try out drones in different industries via a pilot program. Chula Vista Police Department received a two-year-long waiver from the FAA to use the drones outside that program and with a loosening of certain restrictions. -
The ventilator costs just a few hundred dollars and can be put together in 15 minutes. -
Blacks are five times more likely than whites to be hospitalized due to coronavirus. Scientists say stress from chronic systemic racism makes it biologically difficult for people of color to respond to disease. -
Through this technology nearly half of the babies studied were able to receive a diagnoses of 35 extremely rare conditions. -
T cells are white blood cells that flare up when the body is infected with a virus. They attack the cells that are already infected and get rid of them, so the body can stay healthy. -
The virus is covered in sticky spike proteins that help it infect human cells. But those spikes are also covered in sugar, which makes it hard for the body to detect it.
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Steady rain showers are expected throughout San Diego County Thursday and heavy snow could fall in the mountains, potentially making driving difficult. -
With one winter storm already moved out of the county, another one was poised to take its place Wednesday, bringing more heavy rain and possibly snow above 4,000 feet. -
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