Neurosurgery Lectures Benefit from a Flipped Class Approach.

Background: In a flipped classroom, students learn lecture material before class and then participate in active learning during in-person sessions. This study examines preferences for flipped classroom activities during a neurosurgery presentation on traumatic brain injury.

Methods: Two hundred twenty-five third- and fourth-year medical students on their core neurology rotation watched an online podcast about traumatic brain injury before meeting for in-person, active learning activities with a neurological surgeon.

Regulatory role of microRNAs in cancer through Hippo signaling pathway.

Cancer is the major cause of death worldwide in countries of all income levels. The Hippo signaling pathway is a Drosophila kinase gene that was identified to regulate organ size, cell regeneration, and contribute to tumorigenesis. A huge variety of extrinsic and intrinsic signals regulate the Hippo signaling pathway.