The A﹠P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #206

Life Science

You have full access to this article via your institution. Evidence is building that the northern hemisphere is on course for a surge of COVID-19 cases this autumn and winter.

If your coffee is too bitter, add a pinch of salt. If your salad isn’t sour enough, add a pinch of salt. If your beer is too bitter, add a pinch of salt. Salt has a seemingly magical ability to enhance good flavors and dampen bad ones.

Queen Elizabeth's newly released death certificate contains just two curious words under her cause of death – old age. We might talk about people dying of old age in everyday speech. But who actually dies of old age, medically speaking, in the 21st century?

Seeding, Expanding, and Harvesting Cell culturing is hard work. Because it's a highly technical process, there's a lot that can go wrong ...

Um, yuk.

In a study of more than 2300 people with chronic fatigue syndrome, 91 per cent had these genetic variants, in a discovery that could improve diagnosis and treatment

In the wake of the discovery of the DNA molecule, the nucleic acid code was commonly considered the beginning and end of genetic inheritance.

Summary: A new theory of consciousness suggests decisions are made unconsciously, then about half a second later, they become conscious. Consciousness is your awareness of yourself and the world around you. This awareness is subjective and unique to you.

Teaching & Learning

You have full access to this article via your institution. People’s ability to remember fades with age — but one day, researchers might be able to use a simple, drug-free method to buck this trend.

Will this give exam week a whole different vibe?!

This is a great way for students with color vision deficiency—or really, ANY student—to customize A&P image viewing for best learning results. They (we) can modify the screen and Microsoft 365 app colors and contrast on their (our) PC to see the items on the screen better and without visual discomfort.

TAPP News & Notes

Released TODAY! Krista Rompolski chats with host Kevin Patton about student & instructor preference for a combined or split anatomy & physiology sequence.