The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #180

Life Science

Summary: Using ultrasound technology for brain imaging may be less harmful and more cost-effective than other current neuroimaging methods. Both ultrasound for medical imaging and seismology for imaging the Earth’s interior measure the propagation of waves through matter.

The smart necklace, which comes complete with a functional clasp and pendant, uses a resonance circuit, instead of a battery.

Nanophotonic biosensors exploit light’s properties to detect molecular interactions in real time at the point of need.

Creating an isolation ward and filtering the air can prevent viral transmission.

Latest research suggests that the HSV-1 virus strain behind facial herpes as we know it today arose around five thousand years ago, in the wake of vast Bronze Age migrations into Europe from the Steppe grasslands of Eurasia, and associated population booms that drove rates of transmission.

The authors of the study, published in the journal Science Advances, say the Neolithic flourishing of facial herpes detected in the ancient DNA may have coincided with the advent of a new cultural practice imported from the east: romantic and sexual kissing.   

A single chemical is key to controlling when hair follicle cells divide, and when they die. This discovery could not only treat baldness, but ultimately speed wound healing because follicles are a source of stem cells.

Researchers say Black patients are at greater risk of advanced vision loss than white patients following a diagnosis of primary open angle glaucoma.

Ultrasound recordings of Gaelic speakers shed light on how speakers move their tongues backward and forwards in order to produce specific sounds.

Teaching & Learning

The FBI had identified Nicholas (not his real name) as a Russian intelligence officer in San Francisco.

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