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New Drug Combo Shows Early Potential For Treating Pancreatic Cancer

Researchers find three immunotherapy drugs given together can eliminate pancreatic tumors in mice.

Brain Volume, Energy Balance, and Cardiovascular Health in Two Nonindustrial South American Populations

Little is known about brain aging or dementia in nonindustrialized environments that are similar to how humans lived throughout evolutionary history.

Reliable Network Inference From Unreliable Data: A Tutorial on Latent Network Modeling Using STRAND

Social network analysis provides an important framework for studying the causes, consequences, and structure of social ties.

Exact Symbolic Artificial Intelligence For Faster, Better Assessment Of AI Fairness

Probabilistic programming language allows for fast, error-free answers to hard AI problems, including fairness.

Understanding ‘It Depends’ in Ecology: a Guide to Hypothesising, Visualising and Interpreting Statistical Interactions

Ecologists routinely use statistical models to detect and explain interactions among ecological drivers, with a goal to evaluate whether an effect of interest changes in sign or magnitude in different contexts.

Machine Learning Discovers New Sequences To Boost Drug Delivery

MIT researchers employ machine learning to find powerful peptides that could improve a gene therapy drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Variability in Molar Crown Morphology and Cusp Wear in Two Western Chimpanzee Populations

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) possess a relatively generalized molar morphology allowing them to access a wide range of foods.

Men With Obesity Can Double Their Sperm Count

REPRODUCTION Men with obesity can double their sperm count if they lose weight and maintain the weight loss. This is the conclusion in a new study by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Hvidovre Hospital.

Sourcing High Tissue Quality Brains from Deceased Wild Primates with Known Socio-Ecology

The selection pressures that drove dramatic encephalisation processes through the mammal lineage remain elusive, as does knowledge of brain structure reorganisation through this process.

Global Warming Begets More Warming, New Paleoclimate Study Finds

Researchers observe a “warming bias” over the past 66 million years that may return if ice sheets disappear.

Cancer Vulnerabilities Could Get Exposed By ‘Game Changing’ Method

NEW METHOD How do some people develop resistance to cancer treatment? Now, research from University of Copenhagen shows that a new method called 'Deep Visual Proteomics' may be able to help doctors get closer to an answer and expose cancer tumor’s vulnerabilities.

Fitness Consequences of Cousin Marriage: a Life-History Assessment in Two Populations

Cousin marriage, a spousal union between close kin, occurs at high frequencies in many parts of the world.

Fitness Consequences of Cousin Marriage: a Life-History Assessment in Two Populations

Cousin marriage, a spousal union between close kin, occurs at high frequencies in many parts of the world.

Toys as Teachers: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Object Use and Enskillment in Hunter–Gatherer Societies

Studies of cultural transmission—whether approached by archaeological or ethnographic means—have made great strides in identifying formal teaching and learning arrangements, which in turn can be closely aligned with models of social learning.

Female Bone Physiology Resilience in a Past Polynesian Outlier Community

Remodelling is a fundamental biological process involved in the maintenance of bone physiology and function.

Distinguishing Intergroup and Long-Distance Relationships

Intergroup and long-distance relationships are both central features of human social life, but because intergroup relationships are emphasized in the literature, long-distance relationships are often overlooked.

Practical Guide to Coproduction in Conservation Science

We considered a series of conservation-related research projects on the island of Pemba, Tanzania, to reflect on the broad significance of Beier et al.’s recommendations for linking conservation science with practical conservation outcomes.

Individual Stochasticity in the Life History Strategies of Animals and Plants

The life histories of organisms are expressed as rates of development, reproduction, and survival.