The Explorer's Guide to Biology: A Free Multimedia Educational Resource to Promote Deep Learning and Understanding of the Scientific Process.

Here, we describe a new open-access digital resource for teaching and learning life science, The Explorer's Guide to Biology (available at explorebiology.org). Biology can often feel like a daunting subject where learners must comprehend a sea of facts before they can participate in meaningful discussions regarding core biology concepts or biological research.

Engaging students through online video homework assignments: A case study in a large-enrollment ecology and evolution course.

Online educational videos have the potential to enhance undergraduate biology learning, for example by showcasing contemporary scientific research and providing content coverage. Here, we describe the integration of nine videos into a large-enrollment ( = 356) introductory evolution and ecology course via weekly homework assignments. We predicted that videos that feature research stories from contemporary scientists could reinforce topics introduced in lecture and provide students with novel insights into the nature of scientific research.

Semantic Network Analysis Reveals Opposing Online Representations of the Search Term "GMO".

Making sound food and agriculture decisions is important for global society and the environment. Experts tend to view crop genetic engineering, a technology that can improve yields and minimize impacts on the environment, more favorably than the public. Because there is a causal relationship between public opinion and public policy, it is important to understand how opinions about genetically engineered (GE) crops are influenced.

PIM1 kinase inhibition as a targeted therapy against triple-negative breast tumors with elevated MYC expression.

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), in which cells lack expression of the estrogen receptor (ER), the progesterone receptor (PR) and the ERBB2 (also known as HER2) receptor, is the breast cancer subtype with the poorest outcome. No targeted therapy is available against this subtype of cancer owing to a lack of validated molecular targets. We previously reported that signaling involving MYC-an essential, pleiotropic transcription factor that regulates the expression of hundreds of genes-is disproportionally higher in triple-negative (TN) tumors than in receptor-positive (RP) tumors.