The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #163

Life Science

In the hopes of one day building super realistic cyborgs, researchers built a robotic finger that wears living human skin.

We all have different preferences for when it's the right time to bring out the winter blankets. And the thermostat's setting often forms the basis of office arguments between women and men regarding the "correct" temperature for it to be set.

Researchers are learning more about how the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus stifles smell — and how they might revive it.

From a young age we are primed to choose a favourite colour, but strangely as we grow up our preference often changes – and it's largely due to influences outside our control.

Unwanted immune responses threaten to derail some gene therapies. But researchers are seeking ways to combat harmful inflammation.

Researchers have identified transcriptional interplay between microbial and nutritional responses to a high-fat meal (HFM) in the intestinal epithelial cells (IEC) of mice, which suggest gut microbes influence postprandial gene action.

In what appears to be a very promising breakthrough for the treatment of rectal cancer, a small drug trial conducted in the US found every patient treated in the experiment had their cancer successfully go into remission.

Teaching & Learning

This interview study of 24 undergraduates with depression examined how depression affects student cognitive domains when learning science online and how aspects of online science courses affect stu...

TAPP News & Notes

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