🌱 How Upton biotech students are ditching dissections for high-tech rat models
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How Upton biotech students are ditching dissections for high-tech rat models
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Today's riddle: Why is it so hot after a ball game? 🤔 (Answer below!)
Wednesday: A shower and t-storm; warm, with a high of 73 and low of 37 degrees.
Thursday: Cloudy, mist; much colder, temps: high: 42, low: 37.
Friday: Morning mist, with a high of 67 and low of 53 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Transforming Biotech Curricula (bellinghambulletin.com) — Students at Blackstone Valley Tech in Upton are now learning biotechnology with life-size rat models instead of traditional dissections, thanks to a new NAVS BioLEAP grant. The detailed, reusable models are reducing student anxiety, encouraging participation, and even sparking a multimedia collaboration as classmates produce a professional video about the humane tools for the school and grantor.
Expect Delays: Overnight Closures At I-495/I-90 Interchange In Westborough, Hopkinton (patch.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because all the fans leave. (Thank you Shirley J. F. for sending it in!) Got a good riddle for PatchAM? Submit it here!