Share this post ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #51theapprofessor.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOther ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #51Kevin PattonAug 13, 2021Share this post ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #51theapprofessor.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherShareLife ScienceResearchers demonstrate in a mouse model that when older mice have the gut microbiota of younger mice, they display behavioral qualities of younger mice too.Typically, when people think of sodium, they don’t think of cheese, which is pretty high in sodium. For example, a one-ounce serving of Parmesan—and let’s be honest, who eats just one serving?—contains 15% of our recommended dietary allowance of sodium. But the cool thing about cheese is that it contains bioactive proteins, meaning they affect our physiology when we eat them. In animal studies, these proteins have been shown to protect blood vessel function. This led researchers from Penn State to think that cheese may protect the blood vessels in people, too.In the most comprehensive analysis of its kind, scientists find stark differences between children and adultsMetabolism is not just about energy—how the body handles nutrient fuel and converts it to useable energetic currency. Metabolism also encompasses synthesis, modification, and exchange of the building blocks for all aspects of cellular function and acts as a sensor and regulator of cellular activities, in which individual moieties within metabolic pathways influence cellular responses. A substantial amount of the energy taken in each day is required to simply sustain life; the energetic demands of physical activity are superimposed on a vastly integrated machinery.Metabolic status has been linked to innumerable diseases and disorders, including those most prevalent with age.In this report, they analyze energy expenditure in more than 6400 males and females from 29 countries across the globe, aged between 8 days and 95 years, and show distinct metabolic phases during development and aging.Therapeutic proteins such as vaccines, antibodies, hormones, and cytokines are generally produced in bacteria or eukaryotic systems, including chicken eggs and mammalian or insect cell cultures, with high production yield according to well-defined regulatory guidelines (1). The use of plants for the production of therapeutic proteins, called molecular farming, was proposed as an alternative biomanufacturing method in 1986. The first and only plant-derived therapeutic protein for human use was approved in 2012 for the treatment of Gaucher disease. In 2019, a plant-produced influenza virus vaccine completed phase 3 clinical trials, with encouraging results (2). More recently, phase 3 trials for an adjuvanted plant-made vaccine (CoVLP) against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (NCT04636697) began in March 2021. These successes have revived interest in plant-produced pharmaceuticals for human use, which could include edible drugs.Psychology and social science have struggled to achieve unifying discoveries and scientific respectability, but along the way have gleaned insights into what makes us tick.Teaching & LearningLet’s start with a question for instructional designers and faculty members: when you last designed a course, how much time did you spend thinking about the role that each element in that course plays in shaping your college or university?TAPP News & NotesResistance to New Teaching Strategies | Notetaking: Pens or Laptops? | The Pandemic 20 | Diluting Blood Plasma a Fountain of Youth?PreviousNext