The A﹠P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #215

Life Science

Was boxing to blame?

Mammalian oocytes accumulate a large number of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) through active transcription as they grow. Transcription ceases during...

Mixed results with green light therapy for fibromyalgia

For several weeks a year, the work of nurse-midwife Karen Sheffield-Abdullah is really detective work. She and a team of other medical investigators with the North Carolina public health department scour the hospital records and coroner reports of new moms who died after giving birth.

Following gargantuan global efforts against COVID-19, tuberculosis (TB) is once again the world's biggest infectious killer, a top expert has told AFP, lamenting the lack of focus on rooting out TB.

There are subtle questions of timing that scientists are still investigating, including whether time of day or combining vaccines matters.

SARS-CoV-2 is evolving "rapidly," spawning one new variant after another. But omicron continues to dominate, raising new questions about how evolution of the virus is headed.

Teaching & Learning

Using a neural network model, neuroscientists have found that, as the brain moves between REM and slow-wave sleep cycles, the hippocampus teaches the neocortex what it learned. This process seems to convert novel, fleeting data into enduring memories.

TAPP News & Notes

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