A new study, published in January in eLife, a peer-reviewed open access journal, showed that epigenetic modifications passed along to plant offspring can instil disease resistance ― importantly, without decreasing
Archive for March 2019
A new study published on 25 March in Nature provides “clear and definitive evidence” that neurogenesis ― the process used by the brain to make new cells or neurons ―
A new analysis published on 23 March in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology indicates that parental smoking ― both maternal and paternal ― increases the risk of congenital heart
“A sweetener’s not-so-sweet effects” – corn syrup in soft drinks enhances tumour growth
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Obesity is known to increase the risk of developing cancer, including colorectal cancer. Now, a new study published on 22 March in Science suggests high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener used
A special edition of The American Statistician published on 20 March presents over 40 papers from “forward-looking statisticians” on “Statistical inference in the 21st century: a world beyond P <
Astrology and homeopathy have had a public presence for centuries. The majority of the French population believe that the amount of forest is reducing while in fact the land surface
An interesting study published on 18 March in Phytobiomes, a new open-access journal published by APS, provides further evidence of the risks associated with the use of phosphorous fertilisers. According
From the beginning of the industrial revolution to the mid-1990s, the ocean absorbed around one-third of man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to a new study published on 15 March
The number of women in science and technology in the EU is growing, but at a very slow pace according to the latest She Figures 2018 report recently released by
In a new commentary published on 13 March in Nature, an international team of scientists calls for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing (1). In