✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #132

Life Science

The procedure, performed last Friday, is a milestone in a long effort to boost the number of organs available for safe transplantation.

A study published in the journal Science has upended 80 years of conventional wisdom in computational neuroscience that has modeled the neuron as a simple point-like node in a system, integrating signals and passing them along.

Arguably, the most interesting parts of evolution aren’t dinosaurs or Neanderthals, but what’s happening right now – and our future.

A recent study exploring whether mild- to moderate-intensity exercise – directly after a flu or SARS-CoV-2 vaccine – provided an “extra boost” to the immune system yielded interesting results. Technology Networks caught up with Professor Marian Kohut, lead author of the research, to find out more.

There was hope that pre-existing immunity to the common cold could protect against COVID, but new evidence suggests that sometimes the opposite can happen.

Researchers hide ancient weapons and bat skulls, and upload massive sets of data to international servers

Scientists linked hamsters in a pet shop to 50 cases of the Delta variant in Hong Kong in what appears to be the second documented occurrence of animals infecting people with SARS-CoV-2.

Teaching & Learning

The spatial arrangement of words in a word diagram reveals meaning. Therefore, dual coding is inadequate in explaining word diagrams.

All routes to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees run through calculus classes. Each year, hundreds of thousands of college students take introductory calculus.

TAPP News & Notes

Dr. Judi Nath returns for another chat, this time about her new book about nutrients, foods, diet, and our relationships with what we eat.