New Review:
The many faces of Cell Death
Important advances have been made in this area of Biology. Cell death is necessary during several normal cellular processes, however too much or too little cell death promotes or causes disease like cancer. The most studied mechanisms of cell death are apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagy. As research in this field progresses new variations of cell death are being documented. This review focuses on the major ways the cell dies and the interactions among them.
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Ecology and Behavior
Why are bee populations decreasing?
Neurobiology
The Circadian Cycle is involved in regulating brain plasticity
Evolution
Revision of the origins of eukaryotes, Lokiarchaeota is the closets relative to eukaryotes
Gene therapy
Promising technique to prevent the inheritance mitochondrial DNA mutations
The Tree/Web of Life for High School
Professional Development at the Plainsboro Preserve
These lesson plans are based on the middle school curriculum and some of them use primary literature results. We have considered linear progressions, the NGSS, Bloom taxonomy, and several pedagogical techniques like UBD, web diagramming, inquiry, and PBL.