Moderna's Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the pharmaceutical company. Early laboratory tests suggest antibodies triggered by the vaccine…
When you haven't seen your family, hung out with friends or gone on vacation in the name of pandemic safety, watching other people do the things you so desperately miss can be maddening. You might say it makes you “pangry,” a made-up…
The A&P Professor
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Kevin Patton
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Practical advice and resources for quickly moving to remote teaching. ✔ Find Resources: Book | Seminars | Podcast Episodes | Daily Updates Please share with your colleagues. As teaching faculty across the globe scramble to move their…
Host Kevin Patton continues the discussion about student evaluations of teaching (SETs) with a set of strategies to make them work better, or at least mitigate some of the potentially bad or ugly outcomes. There are things we can do proactively…
by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress Past research suggests that infections or inflammation in pregnant women can be linked with the development of neurodevelopmental disorders in their offspring. While this association is well-documented, the…
Medical Xpress
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Science X staff
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Scientists from UNSW Sydney have developed a ceramic-based ink that may allow surgeons in the future to 3-D-print bone parts complete with living cells that could be used to repair damaged bone tissue. Using a 3-D-printer that deploys a special ink…
A team involving UCL researchers have used electrical pulses to help suppress the tremors typically found in conditions such as Parkinson's disease. In a paper published in Nature Communications, the scientists report their new way of suppressing…
by Betty Coffman, University of Louisville Researchers at the University of Louisville have shown that living near an abundance of green vegetation can offset the negative effects of air pollution on blood vessel health. The research, led by Aruni…
With Burns Night on January 25, Michael Alexander hears about the remarkable night in 1834 when a surgeon robbed Robert Burns' grave and stole his skull in the name of science. While the poetry of Robert Burns is mainly moving, melancholic and…
It's one of neuroscience's biggest questions, and researchers have pursued it for decades: How do the firing patterns in specific neural circuits determine an animal's behavior? Early studies on excised brain slices only hinted at an answer…
