19 Steps To Making The Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine

How Pfizer Makes Its Covid-19 Vaccine by Emma Cott, Elliot deBruyn and Jonathan Corum.  The New York Times.  April 28, 2021,   

Psychological Flexibility: A Core Mental Health Asset

Psychological Flexibility:  A Core Mental Health Asset by Noam Shpancer Ph.D.  Psychology Today. 

Using Genetic Information From Millions, Researchers Predict Personalized Response To Drug therapy

Personalizing Drug Development Using Big Data by Alison Mairena.  MedicalXpress.  August 28, 2019.

At Six Weeks A Heartbeat Is Really "Fetal Pole Cardiac Activity"

'Heartbeat' Bills Get The Science Of Fetal Heartbeats All Wrong by Adam Rogers.  Wired.  May 14, 2019, 

Bones Are Growing Faster, Affecting Orthopedics

Bones Are Growing Faster, Affecting Orthopedics by Robert Preidt,.  WebMD.  January 8, 2019

Sustainable Development Key To Further Progress Against Tropical Disease

Progress Against Tropical Diseases Must Be Backed By Poverty Alleviation Efforts--UN Health Agency. UN News Centre.  April 19, 2017. 

20% Of Clinical Trails Don't Draw Enough Participants

Why 1 In 5 Cancer Clinical Trials Fizzle by Bill Briggs.  Fred Hutch News Service.  December 29, 2015. 

Music Training Shapes Teenage Brain For Language Skills

How Music Training Alters The Teenage Brain.  Northwestern University/Science Daily.  July 20, 2015.

Process Of Brain Connection "Streamlining" Occurs Earlier In Females Than In Males

Brain Connections May Explain Why Girls Mature Faster.  Science Daily.  December 19, 2013.

(1)  The research study found that while overall brain connections get __________, long-distance connections are _____________.

(2)  Why does brain function not deteriorate as connections are pruned?

(3)  The researchers found that connections between distant brain regions, between hemisphers, and between processing modules _____________________________.

(4)  Loss of brain connectivity during development can improve brain function by reorganizing the network _____________.

Early Developmental Brain Grown In Laboratory; Implications For Treating Developmental Disorders and Testing Drugs Seen

Miniature Human Brain Grown In Lab by James Gallagher.  BBC News Health.  August 28, 2013.  

(1)  The structures grown in the lab reached the same level of development as ______________________________________,

(2)  _____________ or ________________________ were used to produce the part of the embryo that develops into the brain and spinal cord, ______________.  

(3)  The organoids are, according to one of the researchers, good for ___________-_-----------.

(4)  The structures could be used to replace ____________ in drug research.  

(5)  The breakthrough has already been used to investigate a disease called____________.

 

Obesity in Offsprings Linked To Endocrine Disrupting Compounds

Fetal Exposure To PVC Plastic Chemical Linked To Obesity In Offspring.  Science Daily.  January 15, 2013.

TBT, tributyltin, is used in PVC plastic and marine hull paint.  According to Dr. Bruce Blumberg, UC Irvine professor of pharmaceutical sciences and developmental & cell biology, TBT is an obesogen.   This class of chemicals acts in part by modifying mesenchymal stem cells during development, giving them a propensity to become fat cells.  While the study focused on mice, there perhaps could be implications for children and pregnant women.

Developmental Stability the Key to Intelligence?

If Smart is the Norm, Stupidity Gets More Interesting by David Dobbs.  The New York Times.  October 23, 2012.

Since scientists are having difficulty in finding the specific genetic keys to intelligence, they are looking elsewhere.  By looking at the mutations we carry and their relationship to developmental stability, the accuracy with which the genetic design is built, they are beginning to discern an association between bodily symmetry and intelligence.  This article is largely based upon the ideas of Kevin Mitchell, a developmental neurogeneticists at Trinity College Dublin.