Share this post ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #66theapprofessor.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOther ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #66Kevin PattonSep 22, 2021Share this post ✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #66theapprofessor.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherShareLife ScienceEvidence suggests that humans' sleep was once disjointed, but researchers can't quite figure out why.The study was conducted before the highly contagious delta variant emerged.Of hearts, and myriad other ways natural selection has hit on to sustain multicellular life.Mammals from mice to monkeys have tails. But humans and our cousins the great apes lack them. Now, researchers may have unearthed a simple genetic change that led to our abbreviated back end: an itinerant piece of DNA that leapt into a new chromosomal home and changed how great apes make a key developmental protein. The finding also suggests the genetic shift came with a less visible and more dangerous effect: a higher risk of birth defects involving the developing spinal cord.Microphysiological systems (MPS), such as microfluidic organs-on-chips, have rapidly evolved as promising in vitro tools to recapitulate human physiology by recreating key biological processes and disease states.Teaching & LearningBased on my contribution, I should have been included as an author. Then I discovered the group had published other papers about our work without even acknowledging me. I had become a ghost author, my contributions used without credit.(Yikes. As mentors, we should be building up our students and mentees, right?-kp)TAPP News & NotesWhat is Normal? | What is Normal Body Temperature? | Practical Tips for an Open, Online, Randomized Testing SchemePreviousNext