✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #141

Life Science

A treatment to lower apolipoprotein(a) would be especially valuable because high levels are under genetic control. Lifestyle changes such as diet or exercise have no effect, as they do in lowering cholesterol.

Why it's important to give things a sniff.

USA: A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association - Dermatology looked at the prevalence and incidence rates of pediatric alopecia areata (AA) in the United States from...

Researchers find a way to wipe out the brain's immune cell corps and send in new and improved versions.

In South Africa, a network of researchers are studying whether new lineages BA.4 and BA.5 escape immunity from COVID-19 vaccines and prior infections.

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

Teaching & Learning

Models are very important tools when learning and communicating about science. Models used in secondary school biology education range from concrete scale models, such as a model of a skeleton, to ...

Simularium Viewer provides interactive visual outputs of computational, biological models 

TAPP News & Notes

Dr. Judi Nath discusses her new book about how misinformation affects our lives and laws with host Kevin Patton