Tag: social
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Chasing Easter Eggs: Explaining Chemotaxis (and Rosemary as an Immune System Modulator)
Teaching Immunology With an Easter Egg Hunt This is a story to explain the concept of chemotaxis. Neutrophils are a type of cell that can actually move around inside your body. They live in your blood vessels. And if you get a cut that lets germs (bacteria) in, the cells in your finger send out…
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Stress Reduction- a walk in the woods, meditation, or exercise
Koselka et al.studied the effects of walking either in a forested area or in an area with a lot of traffic. They compared both of these walks to days on which the participants went about their normal activities. The authors mention that the Forest Preserve District of Cook County has attempted to establish forest preserves…
