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Plant-Based Meat ‘Healthier and More Sustainable Than Animal Products’ - New Study

A new review from Dr Chris Bryant focuses on the health and environmental benefits of plant-based products, as well as consumer attitudes.

Why Is It So Hard for Humans to Have a Baby?

Professor Laurence Hurst from the Milner Centre for Evolution finds solution to the mystery of why most human embryos die young.

Swans Sacrifice Rest to Squabble

Swans give up resting time to fight over the best feeding spots, new research shows.

Lactating Mice Pass along Common Antimicrobial to Pups, Initiating Liver Damage

Triclosan is used in everything from cleaners to pesticides to toys; researchers say exposure early in life may lay groundwork for future development of fatty liver disease

Studies Link COVID-19 to Wildlife Sales at Chinese Market, Find Other Scenarios Extremely Unlikely

Analyses based on locations and viral sequencing of early cases indicate the COVID-19 pandemic started in Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, with two separate jumps from animals to humans.

Reducing Sugar in Packaged Foods Can Prevent Disease in Millions

Reducing the sugar content of commercially prepared foods and beverages will have a larger impact on the health of Americans than other initiatives to cut sugar.

Swiss biologists try to bypass null hypothesis to develop more realistic method

Replacing an entrenched method in scientific research is difficult, even when the method is problematic. Such is the case with shifting from research studies based on the null hypothesis to a more realistic method of estimation.

Cyanobacteria Use the Lotus Effect

Water repellency as the first step to life on land a billion years ago

Getting to the Heart of Engineering a Heart

New tissue engineering capabilities enable researchers to program contractility in functional layers of heart tissue bioprinted with human stem cell-derived organ building blocks

Israeli computer simulation sheds light on life’s possible origins

A new simulation by researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute shows how life could have originally evolved from simple fatty molecules known as micelles into self-reproducing structures capable of evolving to more complex forms.

A Major Step Forward for Organ Biofabrication

By recreating the helical structure of heart muscles, researchers improve understanding of how the heart beats

New Research Could Explain Unknown Causes of Epilepsy

The findings also have implications for other neuromuscular diseases such as ALS.

Intensive Visiting Nurse Program Doesn't Impact Birth Outcomes, Says Ongoing Study

First results underscore the urgent need for a better understanding of how to address inequities in birth outcomes.

Bring Back the Wolves – but Not as Heroes or Villains

Re-introducing wolves and other predators to our landscapes does not miraculously reduce deer populations

“Soft” CRISPR May Offer a New Fix for Genetic Defects

Targeted repairs with ‘nicks’ of single DNA strands provide foundation for novel disease therapies

Organoids Reveal Similarities Between Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 and Rett Syndrome

Discoveries of common mutations and dysfunction also point to therapeutic possibilities for both inherited disorders

Immune Cells Anchored in Tissues Offer Unique Defenses Against Pathogens and Cancers

A new atlas of tissue-resident memory T cells offers hope for therapies based on protective ‘first responders’