Monthly Archives: January 2022
Addressing the Ethnic Disparity in SAT scores
For high-school students, the SAT is one of the most, if not the most, important assessments of academic achievement. Nevertheless, the SAT is shrouded in controversy, including a persistent and substantial ethnic disparity in SAT scores for
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: fighting mutants
Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria causing an infection survive after being exposed to a drug that, under normal conditions, would kill it or inhibit its growth. As a result, this surviving strains multiply and spread due to
Intestinal inflammation mediated by silver nanoparticles is prevented by dietary flavonoids
The interest in silver nanoparticles (AgNP) has been growing exponentially around the world, due to their unique physical, chemical and biological properties, as evidenced by their wide application in numerous products of our daily lives. In fact,
The complex regulation and functional significance of size diversity in social bees
Across animals, variation in body size is often influenced by environmental conditions and is considered to have adaptive value. In bees, in which many species show various degrees of sociality, body size may also be associated with
Orexin-A regulates dopamine D2 receptor in the mesolimbic circuit
Orexin-A (orx-A) is a neuropeptide expressed exclusively in hypothalamic neurons. Orx-A acts through the activation of type-1 (Orx1R) and -2 (Orx2R) receptors present in the mesolimbic circuit and in other brain areas. These neuropeptides have been implicated
