In the tropics and subtropics, families and communities frequently rely on bushmeat for food security as well as basic income. So, while the harvest and trade of wildlife are illegal in many locales, the practice is commonplace, ...
Oct 22, 2020
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When New York City's COVID-19 rates spiked last December due to the emerging omicron variant, humans weren't the only mammals affected.
Feb 8, 2022
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Response efforts to outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Africa can benefit from a standardized sampling strategy that focuses on the carcasses of gorillas, chimpanzees and other species known to succumb to the virus, ...
May 16, 2012
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The dramatic decline in childhood mortality during the 20th century has added a full year to women's lives, according to a new study.
May 20, 2024
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New insights into the causes of our raging obesity epidemic are coming from an unusual source: locusts.
Jun 21, 2013
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To a microbe, the human body is a vast environment, full of resources and opportunities, dangers and threats. In the world of bacteria, it's thrive or fail to survive. Evolve or go extinct.
Nov 24, 2015
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People have different susceptibilities to SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, and develop varying degrees of fever, fatigue, and breathing problems—common symptoms of the illness. What might explain this ...
Oct 21, 2020
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The level of immunity to the recently circulating H7N9 influenza virus in an urban and rural population in Vietnam is very low, according to the first population level study to examine human immunity to the virus, which was ...
May 21, 2013
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The ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) and the Gladstone Institutes today announced the formation of a research collaboration to speed the discovery of potential treatments for ALS through the preclinical drug development ...
Dec 4, 2012
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A paper by a multidisciplinary team of scientists affiliated with various Brazilian institutions, including the University of São Paulo (USP) and the National Cancer Institute (INCA), shows that people of African descent ...
Feb 2, 2021
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