Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

Odd Biochemistry Reveals Lethal Bacterial Protein Insights

The new findings, reported in Nature Chemical Biology, should help scientists find new ways to target the enterococcal cytolysin protein, a “virulence factor…

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Plants Adapt to Drought: New Study Reveals Limits Ahead

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, and their partners have determined that water demand by many plant communities can fluctuate in…

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Penn Vet Study Reveals a Promising New Target for Parkinson’s Disease Therapies

Narayan G. Avadhani, Harriet Ellison Woodward Professor of Biochemistry and chair of the Department of Animal Biology at Penn Vet, was the senior author on the…

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Childhood ADHD Diagnoses Surge: Key Study Insights

The rate of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder rose dramatically between 2001 and 2010 with non-Hispanic white children having…

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Understanding Cancer Through Evolutionary Biology Insights

It is this relationship between evolution and the body's fight against cancer which is explored in a new special issue of the Open Access journal Evolutionary…

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Fracking Wastewater Analysis Reveals Surprising Insights

But the scale of fracking operations in the Marcellus shale region is so vast that the wastewater it produces threatens to overwhelm the region's wastewater…

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False Alarm? Evaluating Agricultural Speculation in Research

IAMO Policy Brief 9 presents an evaluation of 35 research papersRecent public discourse increasingly discussed the issue whether speculators in agricultural…

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In minutes a day, low-income families can improve their kids' health

“Children whose families engaged with each other over a 20-minute meal four times a week weighed significantly less than kids who left the table after 15 to 17…

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Wolves vs. Dogs: New Study Explores Taming Behavior Differences

Now, doctoral research by evolutionary biologist Kathryn Lord at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests the different behaviors are related to the…

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New research finds slower growth of preterm infants linked to altered brain development

The cerebral cortex is a two to four millimetre layer of cells that envelopes the top part of the brain and is involved in cognitive, behavioural, and motor…

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Cut Diabetes Amputation Risk by 50% with Simple Interventions

A new study at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, confirmes that shoe inserts, podiatry, regular checkups and other simple interventions…

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International study: Where there’s smoke or smog, there’s climate change

The new study concludes that black carbon, the soot particles in smoke and smog, contributes about twice as much to global warming as previously estimated,…

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Family Life’s Impact on Consumer Response to TV Ads

“It is common to link advertising viewing at home to increased levels of materialism and domestic tension stemming from 'pester power' (children getting…

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Plumber and Spray Painter: High Asthma Risk Exposed

Asthma is among the most common adult diseases in the world. Despite the fact that the risks of chemical exposure have long been known and that there are…

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Graphic Cigarette Warnings Effective for All Demographics

Quitting smoking is a common New Year's resolution for Americans each year, but research has repeatedly shown it is not an easy task. Some groups, such as…

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Parkinson’s Can Lead to Anxiety and Other Non-Motor Symptoms, Even Early On

“Oftentimes people with early Parkinson’s don’t even mention these symptoms to their doctors, and doctors don’t ask about them, yet many times they can be…

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