The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #162

Life Science

A US medical team said Thursday they had reconstructed a human ear using the patient's own tissue to create a 3D bioimplant, a pioneering procedure they hope can be used to treat people with a rare birth defect.

The Human Placenta Project helps fund new research methods for studying placenta health and related diseases like preeclampsia.

Standing head and shoulders above the crowd has its perks – but those extra inches can come at a cost. According to a new study, being tall is fundamentally associated with a number of diseases, from varicose veins to peripheral nerve damage.

Retrofitting wireless earbuds to detect neural signals and relaying the data back to smartphones via Bluetooth, researchers say the new earEEG system could have multiple applications, including health monitoring.

The latest research points to a surprising new setting for the story of glia: outside the brain. Mysterious populations of glia reside in the heart, spleen, lungs and various other organs. But no one knows how they’ll fit into the plot. Early hints suggest the story is going to be riveting.

Nature explores how subvariants are named, and why none of Omicron’s family members has been upgraded to a ‘variant of concern’.

Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration decided Tuesday that authorizing Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine -- which uses different technology from the three vaccines currently in use in the US -- for emergency use in adults would be beneficial.

Teaching & Learning

Most are administratively imposed, and academic freedom thus affords them little protection.

Videos...You will be in the situation of a surgeon who inserts the endoscope into the tissue but does not know what will appear on the screen. Nothing is planned, as in a movie with a script. You may find this surprising, captivating, interesting and informative, and you will be transported to a world full of surprises. However, the images are sometimes blurry, and the haze and droplets on the camera lens obscure the image, making some sections opaque and unusable. You will be surprised, bewildered, maybe even shaken, but forced to redefine your conceptions of this microanatomical reality easily reproducible by any surgeon.

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