The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #164

Life Science

June 7, 2022 -- A poor-quality human liver was repaired inside a machine for 3 days before it was successfully transplanted into a cancer patient with advanced cirrhosis who otherwise had a "near zero" chance of getting a liver in time, according to a new report.

The human liver stays youthful even while the rest of our bodies grow old, according to new research, and on average the organ is is less than three years old, no matter what the age of the person it's attached to.

Andrea Baccarelli loves black truffles—the fungi, not the chocolates. His parents, he says, are also fond of the delicacy. His grandparents liked them, too, as did his great-grandparents.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, chewing gum was a big deal. TV ads showcased the doublemint twins and their stick gum, and the small squares of chiclets. Kids preferred tiny bricks of pink Bazooka with the folded-up shiny papers bearing dumb comics.

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Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration decided Tuesday that authorizing Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in adults would be beneficial, bringing it one step closer to being administered across the country.

Teaching & Learning

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, postsecondary school enrollment has declined by 938,000 students — that’s a 5% drop from fall 2019.

This Current Insights presents new research on “responsive teaching” in STEM education.

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