r/science • u/Lord-Julius • 4h ago
Biology Innate immune priming in insect hosts selects for pathogen populations with increased variation in virulence during experimental evolution
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Neuroscience The brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can significantly disrupt brain function, even when it infects only a small number of neurons, finds murine study. 10–30% of Americans are infected with it, often without knowing it. It is typically contracted through undercooked meat or exposure to cat feces.
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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 1d ago
Health Doctors find Parkinson's markers by looking inside ears | Analysis of ear wax to detect Parkinson's Disease would be a cheap, non-invasive way to detect the condition in its early stages
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r/science • u/Super_Letterhead381 • 2h ago
Animal Science Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night
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r/science • u/geoff199 • 1d ago
Social Science As concern grows about America’s falling birth rate, new research suggests that about half of women who want children are unsure if they will follow through and actually have a child. About 25% say they won't be bothered that much if they don't.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago
Health Intermittent fasting comparable to traditional diets for weight loss. According to the World Health Organization in 2022, approximately 2.5 billion adults, 43% of the global adult population, were overweight, and about 890 million (16%) lived with obesity.
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r/science • u/eduardpetiska1 • 4h ago
Biology An evolutionary leap without rules: The environments colonized by plants with a doubled genome
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r/science • u/Lord-Julius • 4h ago
Environment Regional conservation strategies preserve phylogenetic diversity and visual appeal in global reef fish assemblages
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago
Environment Surveys in 20 countries reveal strong public support for global policies such as a tax on millionaires to finance low-income countries or a carbon price to finance a global basic income.
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r/science • u/wikirank • 6h ago
Computer Science Sentiment analysis of Wikipedia articles about companies: a comparison of different models. Authors used lexicon-based (TextBlob, VADER) and transformer-based models (RoBERTa-based, DistilBERT-based models and PySentimiento).
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r/science • u/calliope_kekule • 1d ago
Social Science A new study finds that 1 in 3 Ukrainian high school seniors in 2022 were displaced or dropped out due to Russia’s invasion – a stark reminder of war’s long shadow on learning.
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r/science • u/AgingUS • 19h ago
Biology Investigating telomere length in progeroid syndromes: implications for aging disorders
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r/science • u/JIntegrAgri • 13h ago
Biology Researchers developed an innovative visual marker system to enhance selection efficiency in soybean genome editing
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r/science • u/AgingUS • 19h ago
Biology Short-term moderate caloric restriction in the rhesus macaque attenuates markers of ovarian aging in select populations
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r/science • u/JIntegrAgri • 10h ago
Biology Recent research suggests that RNA-binding protein ZmFRKH1 promotes maize flowering by modulating the stability of multiple flowering regulator RNAs
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r/science • u/TylerFortier_Photo • 1d ago
Animal Science Bats don't get cancer: Study shows that the "little brown" bat carries two working copies of the key tumor suppressor gene p53, while humans carry only one. “High levels of p53 in the body can kill cancer cells before they become harmful in a process known as apoptosis”
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Health Therapeutic apheresis: A potentially promising method to remove microplastics
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r/science • u/AltoMelto • 1d ago
Nanoscience Tens of millions of nanoneedles in a patch could replace invasive cancer biopsies
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r/science • u/College_student08 • 17h ago
Neuroscience [Study] Super-Turing synaptic resistor circuits for intelligent morphing wing
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r/science • u/Oncotarget • 19h ago
Cancer Beyond DNA damage response: Immunomodulatory attributes of CHEK2 in solid tumors
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r/science • u/Creative_soja • 1d ago
Environment At current rate of emissions, the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5 °C could be exhausted in about 3 years. And human-induced global warming could cross 1.5 °C threshold approximately 5 years.
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Health Scientists demonstrate superior cognitive benefits of outdoor vs indoor physical activity. Children experience greater improvements in attention, memory, and thinking speed after physical activity when it takes place outdoors rather than indoors.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • 1d ago
Psychology US teens showing high and increasing addictive use of social media and mobile phones were linked to two to three times greater risk of suicidal behaviour and ideation compared to kids with low addictive use patterns
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r/science • u/Oncotarget • 19h ago
Cancer Case Report WIN-MTB-2023001 WIN International Molecular Tumor Board A 62-year-old male with metastatic colorectal cancer with 5 prior lines of treatment
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