The A﹠P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #187

Life Science

The implant, made from pig skin protein, could provide visually-impaired people with more affordable transplants

Though scientists don’t yet know much about it, a newly described process called erebosis might have profound implications for how the gut maintains itself.

“Most people would be better off just drinking a full glass of water and skipping the vitamin,” says Pieter Cohen, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The aesthetics of the Atomic Age helped whitewash the threat of nuclear disaster

It is essential to assess the severity of multiple sclerosis (MS) in order to choose appropriate therapeutic measures, but this cannot be reliably done using existing methods. A study now shows for the first time that the retina can be used as a prognostic marker.

A team of researchers has proposed a microbiome search-based method to analyze the wealth of available health data to detect and diagnose human diseases.

Teaching & Learning

I told you so!

I'm pretty sure I did.

Didn't I?

Difficult tasks can lead to build-up of a signalling molecule in the brain, triggering fatigue.

Our worldview forms during childhood as a result of our socialization within a particular cultural context. Our views get reinforced over time by the social groups we keep, the media we consume, and even the way in which our brains are wired. Challenging our worldviews with facts can feel like an attack on our personal identities and can often result in hardening our positions. Researchers assess how we can open our minds and explore facts that may go against our personal worldviews.

TAPP News & Notes

A typical syllabus is a boring list of mostly unrelated rules, regulations, and procedures. Wouldn't it work better if our syllabus was instead an engaging, illustrated story?