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On Early Warning Signs § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

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Rapid shifts are the hallmark of climate change, epileptic seizures, financial crises, and fishery collapses. Deep mathematical principles tie these events together.
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Gut microbe may fight obesity and diabetes

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Bacterium helps to regulate metabolism in mice.
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Brain Region May Hold Key to Aging

While the search continues for the Fountain of Youth, researchers may have found the body’s “fountain of aging”: the brain region known as the hypothalamus.
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Baby Knows Best: Fetuses Emit Hormone Crucial to Preventing Preeclampsia

Baby Knows Best: Fetuses Emit Hormone Crucial to Preventing Preeclampsia | Exploring Life | Scoop.it
Listening to the hormonal ‘conversation’ between mother and fetus could reveal new opportunities for preeclampsia detection and prevention.
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Breast Milk Protein Complex Helps Reverse Antibiotic Resistance

A protein complex found in human breast milk can help reverse the antibiotic resistance of bacterial species that cause dangerous pneumonia and staph infections, according to new University at Buffalo research.
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Shedding Light on the Long Shadow of Childhood Adversity

Childhood adversity can lead to chronic physical and mental disability in adult life and have an effect on the next generation, underscoring the importance of research, practice and policy in addressing this issue, according to a Viewpoint in the...
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Achieving herd immunity against pseudoscience in the age of the filter bubble and the social news revolution | Neurobonkers | Big Think

Achieving herd immunity against pseudoscience in the age of the filter bubble and the social news revolution | Neurobonkers | Big Think | Exploring Life | Scoop.it
Last night Ben Goldacre appeared on BBC Newsnight (viewable from UK ip addesses or portals only, for the next 7 days) discussing the ongoing havoc caused by the MMR scare in the form of a major outbreak in the UK of a disease that was on its way to...
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Moon Landing Faked!!!—Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories: Scientific American

Moon Landing Faked!!!—Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories: Scientific American | Exploring Life | Scoop.it
New psychological research helps explain why some see intricate government conspiracies behind events like 9/11 or the Boston bombing
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Hormone levels and sexual motivation among young women

Feeling frisky? If so, chances are greater your estrogen level -- and, perhaps, fertility -- are hitting their monthly peak.
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Mild blast injury causes molecular changes in brain akin to Alzheimer

Scientists have shown that mild traumatic brain injury after blast exposure produces inflammation, oxidative stress and gene activation patterns akin to disorders of memory processing such as Alzheimer's disease.
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Gut bacteria byproduct predicts heart attack and stroke

A microbial byproduct of intestinal bacteria contributes to heart disease and serves as an accurate screening tool for predicting future risks of heart attack, stroke and death in persons not otherwise identified by traditional risk factors and...
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Gold nanoparticles cellular toxicity and recovery: Adipose Derived Stromal cells, Nanotoxicology, Informa Healthcare

Gold nanoparticles cellular toxicity and recovery: Adipose Derived Stromal cells, Nanotoxicology, Informa Healthcare | Exploring Life | Scoop.it
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Reports of junk DNA's 'demise' were based on junky logic and dubious definitions | Science & Society | Science News

Reports of junk DNA's 'demise' were based on junky logic and dubious definitions | Science & Society | Science News | Exploring Life | Scoop.it
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Peering deeply – and quite literally – into the intact brain: A video fly-through

Peering deeply – and quite literally – into the intact brain: A video fly-through | Exploring Life | Scoop.it
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Want to Slow Mental Decay? Play a Video Game

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A University of Iowa study shows that older people can put off the aging of their minds by playing a simple game that primes their processing speed skills.
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Children with Milk Allergy May be ‘Allergic to School’

According to a study published in the May issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), chalk dust can contain the milk protein, casein, triggering...
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Risk of Depression Influenced by Quality of Relationships

After analyzing data from nearly 5,000 American adults, U-M researchers found that the quality of a person’s relationships with a spouse, family and friends predicted the likelihood of major depression disorder in the future, regardless of how...
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Maternal Diet Sets Up Junk Food Addiction in Babies

Research from the University of Adelaide suggests that mothers who eat junk food while pregnant have already programmed their babies to be addicted to a high fat, high sugar diet by the time they are weaned.
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Combining Antibiotics May Backfire - ScienceNOW

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Combining Antibiotics May Backfire - ScienceNOW
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New Research Roadmap for Connecting Genes to Ecology

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Researchers propose a new investigative roadmap for the field of evolutionary developmental biology to better understand how innovation at the genetic level can lead to ecological adaptations over time.
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Roundworm quells obesity and related metabolic disorders

Researchers have shown in a mouse model that infection with nematodes (also known as roundworms) can not only combat obesity but ameliorate related metabolic disorders.
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First vaccine to help control some autism symptoms

First vaccine to help control some autism symptoms | Exploring Life | Scoop.it
A first-ever vaccine for gut bacteria common in autistic children may also help control some autism symptoms.
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Supernova left its mark in ancient bacteria

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Radioactive iron may be first fossil imprint of a nearby cosmic explosion.

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Why a Near-Death Experience Isn’t Proof of Heaven: Scientific American

Why a Near-Death Experience Isn’t Proof of Heaven: Scientific American | Exploring Life | Scoop.it
Did a neurosurgeon go to heaven?
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Neuroscience Cannae Do It Cap’n, It Doesn’t Have the Power

Neuroscience Cannae Do It Cap’n, It Doesn’t Have the Power | Exploring Life | Scoop.it
The brain has hit the big time. Barack Obama has just announced $100 million of funding for the …
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