✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #143

Life Science

An Emory study is the first to show that mRNA can be used to activate genes in animals. The discovery could lead to someday helping control how the immune system responds to pathogens.

If you want to map the tiniest parts of a protein, you only have a few options: You can coax millions of individual protein molecules to align into crystals and analyze them using x-ray crystallography. Or you can flash-freeze copies of the protein and bombard them with electrons, a lower resolution method called cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Now, for the first time, scientists have sharpened cryo-EM's resolution to the atomic level, allowing them to pinpoint the positions of individual atoms in a variety of proteins at a resolution that rivals x-ray crystallography's.

Infants born during the pandemic produced significantly fewer vocalizations and had less verbal back-and-forth with their caretakers compared to those born before COVID, according to independent studies by Brown University and a national nonprofit focused on early language development. Both research teams used the nonprofit LENA’s “talk pedometer” technology to glean their findings. The wearable […]

A new study could clarify why tuberculosis treatments work in some patients but not others and potentially lead to better ways to fight TB.

The above-listed nutrients are no longer labeled vitamins, as they no longer fit the official definition of a vitamin; essential and required for normal human growth and are required to be obtained by diet because they can't be manufactured by the human body. However, many are still in use and recommended for a variety of health needs as other nutritional supplements.

April 19 (UPI) -- A smartwatch that can track heart rate can be used to monitor disease progression in people with COVID-19 and may predict how sick they will become, a study published Tuesday found.

Teaching & Learning

An overwhelming body of evidence from studies in cognitive science, psychology, economics, physics, chemistry, math, and many other disciplines indicates that students learn most effectively when frequent opportunities to recall and attempt to apply the knowledge they have acquired.

As I’ve written in the past, when it comes to increasing diversity, higher education institutions don’t have a pipeline problem so much as a recognizing excellence that looks different from the status quo problem, combined with a lack of commitment to making the institution welcoming for diverse

TAPP News & Notes

How can we share with our students our "expert eye" for identifying tissues?

This episode helps us understand that teaching and learning histology is not simple. It's stratified!