The A﹠P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #226

Life Science

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have evidence to potentially overturn a prevailing belief in a type of important signaling within cells.

About 30 per cent of tears in the anterior cruciate ligament that supports the knee heal within two years with strengthening exercises, challenging the common assumption that surgery is always needed Some 30 per cent of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears heal within two years without knee surger

A cup of ruby red hibiscus tea not only warms the body in winter but also is known to boost the immune system, control blood pressure, and reduce body weight. And here is yet another reason to enjoy this tea – It may defeat Alzheimer’s disease.

Visit any university and you’ll typically find its art and science departments on opposite ends of campus — or at least housed in separate buildings. Yet plenty of people throughout history have spanned this great divide.

Summary: The commercial dietary supplement nicotinamide riboside, touted to improve cardiovascular and neurological health, may actually increase the risk of developing breast cancer that metastasizes to the brain.

Mitochondria are very special organelles. Known as cellular powerhouses, they can do more than generate energy. They also carry their own tiny genomes, and even have ribosomes that can generate mitochondrial proteins.

Summary: Transplanting intestinal epithelial stem cells from healthy donors reduced stroke-induced mortality, decreased the volume of dead brain tissue and gut leakiness, and prevented stroke-induced cognitive decline. Stroke is a leading cause of death, dementia and serious long-term disability.

Globally, SARS CoV-2 omicron variant has led to a notable increase of COVID-19 diagnoses, although with less severe clinical manifestations and decreased hospitalizations.

he updated Covid-19 boosters increase people’s protection against symptomatic infection from the coronavirus, according to some of the first estimates of how Tthe shot is performing in the real world and in people, not just in lab experiments.

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TAPP News & Notes

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