The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #168

Life Science

The Supreme Court’s scrapping of Roe v. Wade shifts decisions about related health care to states. Accurate science is often missing in those talks.

The Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium has generated the first complete human genome. Some of the methods and results from the consortium are presented here along with expert commentary on this milestone.

A study of patients with breast cancer and mouse models demonstrates that most circulating tumour cells are generated during the rest phase of the circadian rhythm, and that these cells are highly prone to metastasize.

A previously overlooked protein is important to this type of itch, an insight that could aid the development of new treatments.

A study of people with prediabetes shows that the same foods affect blood sugar levels very differently. The findings add to a growing body of evidence undermining the idea of a standard glycaemic index

Authors who cited flawed work often fail to warn readers, study finds

They span three continents, but a trio of researchers who’ve never met share a singular focus made vital by the still-raging pandemic: deciphering the causes of Long Covid and figuring out how to treat it.

Larger waves of illness could hit, and diseases could circulate at times or in places when they normally would not, experts say.

Plague may seem like an ancient disease, but the bacterium that causes it persists in rodents and fleas around the world. Researchers are warning that it could resurface in a form that our antibiotics can't treat and cause another pandemic

Repeat coronavirus infections may be on the rise as the omicron variant continues to spread. Scientists are still trying to nail down the risks.

Teaching & Learning

Impostor syndrome, or a fear that a person's abilities will be exposed as a "deception", can appear regardless of age, gender, or level of intelligence.

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