✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #95

The brain regions that juggle smells, memories and emotions are very much intertwined.

People who work overnight are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, but the risk may be reduced by eating only between 7am and 7pm

Sleep-related hypoxia linked to higher risk for COVID-19 hospitalization, death

Ixodes scapularis ticks transmit many pathogens that cause human disease, including Borrelia burgdorferi. Acquired resistance to I. scapularis due to repeated tick exposure has the potential to pre…

Estimates based on viral evolution forecast a 50% risk 17 months after a first infection without measures such as masking and vaccination.

Vaccine-makers are already adapting vaccines to fight the omicron coronavirus variant, but it will probably already have swept the world by the time these arrive

The data are growing that booster jabs enhance protection — but their durability, impact and ability to quash the new variant are unknown.

I don’t grade student work, and I haven’t for 20 years. This practice continues to feel like an act of personal, professional, and political resistance.

Language and tool use seem to be governed by the same brain region, suggests a study involving an fMRI scanner. I wonder if something like this goes in in A&P lab activities?

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