How a game-based approach to teaching helps improve learning
Researchers from Keele University's Medical School have developed a game-based approach to teaching doctors in training, which helps to improve their learning about how drugs work.
Researchers from Keele University's Medical School have developed a game-based approach to teaching doctors in training, which helps to improve their learning about how drugs work.
Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2018
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Despite increasing numbers of underrepresented minority (URM) trainees in the biomedical sciences, there is a persistent shortage of URM faculty who are involved in basic biomedical research at medical schools.
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2018
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Two independent teams of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have discovered that a gene crucial for learning, called Arc, can send its genetic material from one neuron ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 16, 2018
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In an era when, for most of us, an Internet connection is typically within a hand's reach to a smartphone, laptop or tablet, it can be hard to believe that 60 percent of the world's population lacks connectivity. The ubiquity ...
Internet
Jun 14, 2017
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Researchers at the University of Michigan, Stanford University and biotech company ConfometRx have captured the first cryo-electron microscopy snapshots of a key cellular receptor in action.
Biochemistry
May 24, 2017
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What makes a cluster of cells become a liver, or a muscle? How do our genes give rise to proteins, proteins to cells, and cells to tissues and organs?
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 3, 2017
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Legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart may not have perished in a plane crash as many have long assumed.
Archaeology
Jan 11, 2017
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Nobel laureate Steven Chu will receive an honorary degree from University of Massachusetts Lowell this week.
Other
Nov 13, 2016
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If you're a human who's really hungry, a handful of nuts, a piece of cheese or a nice juicy steak may really hit the spot. If you're a fruit fly, a nibble of yeast will do the trick.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 8, 2016
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Glasses with embedded cameras and smartwatches with stored information seem like regular spy equipment for the likes of James Bond, but for three students applying to medical school in Thailand, they were high-technology ...
Other
May 11, 2016
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