This year’s medicine laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun studied a relatively unassuming 1 mm long roundworm, C. elegans.
Despite its small size, C. elegans possesses many specialised cell types such as nerve and muscle cells also found in larger, more complex animals, making it a useful model for investigating how tissues develop and mature in multicellular organisms.
Read how the 2024 medicine laureates’ investigations into C. elegans revealed an entirely new dimension to gene regulation: https://t.co/8RwUplwYQA
#NobelPrize
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
Vouchers are a failed idea. They don’t work as an educational system. The public has no duty to subsidize private schools.
Parent choice? School choice? Of course. Choose a private model if that is best for your child.
But don’t ask the public to pay for it.
#txed#txlege
Dan Patrick saying he'll fight for our public schools is like trusting the wolf to guard the henhouse.
As Lt. Governor, I will fully fund our schools and put an end to the attacks on public education in Texas.
After visiting a kindergarten class, I came to three certainties:
1. I could NEVER teach elementary school.
2. Elementary school teachers are superhuman.
3. If you ever want an honest opinion— just ask a 5-year-old. They are still too young to know they should lie.
76 dedicated students are spending their day off taking a mock AP chemistry test. @apchemflomo and I are so impressed with this great group of students!