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🌱 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

Also on today's calendar: Album Club: Yes - Close To The Edge and 8 more events.

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Today's riddle: Why is it so hot after a ball game? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • 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.
   

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  • Traffic is at a standstill on I-90 E • Mass Pike...
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🗞 Nearby News

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Hopedale

  • Kopin Target of Unusually Large Options Trading (NASDAQ:KOPN) (marketbeat.com)
  • Drivers warned of significant delays after tractor trailer overturns on Mass Pike (wcvb.com)
  • Tanishq Opens First New England Location (nationaljeweler.com)

Westborough

  • Expect Delays: Overnight Closures At I-495/I-90 Interchange In Westborough, Hopkinton (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because all the fans leave. (Thank you Shirley J. F. for sending it in!)
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