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Do Saturated Fats Really Cause Heart Disease?
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GENETICS and MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. SCIENCE EDUCATION and POLICY. Subscribe to the newsletter. Stay in touch with the scientific world! Do Saturated Fats Really Cause Heart Disease? March 17th 2014 05:37 PM 2 comments. And consumption of polyunsaturated fats is probably not a bad idea but there is insufficient evidence for guidelines which advocate the high consumption of polyunsaturated fats (such as omega 3 and omega 6) to reduce the risk of coronary disease. Lead author Dr. Rajiv Chowdhury of the Univ...
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Cyberbullying Does Not 'Cause' Teen Suicide
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GENETICS and MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. SCIENCE EDUCATION and POLICY. Subscribe to the newsletter. Stay in touch with the scientific world! Cyberbullying Does Not 'Cause' Teen Suicide. October 20th 2012 10:13 AM 40 comments. Suicides most frequently occurred in September (15 percent) and January (12 percent) although in such a small sample these higher rates may have occurred by chance. The incidence of reported suicide cases increased over time, with 56 percent occurring from 2003 to 2010, compared to 44 pe...
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Butyrate As Therapy: Fatty Acid Produced By Gut Bacteria Boosts Immune System
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GENETICS and MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. SCIENCE EDUCATION and POLICY. Subscribe to the newsletter. Stay in touch with the scientific world! Butyrate As Therapy: Fatty Acid Produced By Gut Bacteria Boosts Immune System. November 14th 2013 09:13 AM 1 comment. A new integrative medicine paper examines the role of gut bacteria on the maturation of the immune system and claims evidence supporting the use of butyrate as therapy for inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease, based on mouse models. In a mouse mod...
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ANTHROPHYSIS: October 2012
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WHERE HUMANS AND NATURE COLLIDE. Thursday, 25 October 2012. Is human disturbance good news for caribou? Although individuals of a particular species frequently differ in a variety of characteristics, the implications of those differences are often not well understood. One exception to this general rule is the known positive impacts of size and condition, but what about the effects of certain preferences and choices- the tendency, for example, to utilize one type of habitat rather than another? This habit...
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ANTHROPHYSIS: May 2013
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WHERE HUMANS AND NATURE COLLIDE. Wednesday, 29 May 2013. Urban wildlife breeding success linked to forest patch size. Raccoon dog pups. Image courtesy of Zooillogix. Which has a whole webpage describing raccoon dog biology.). What is causing some raccoon dogs to forego breeding? This was suggested by the results of the camera trap survey, which was conducted by a pair of researchers from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and published in the journal PLoS ONE. This suggests that urban pl...
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Read! – Life, the Universe, and Everything
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Life, the Universe, and Everything. Kat's personal blog. 1 Small Stones (Mindfulness Monday). 4 3rd Sentence Thursday. Looking for something specific? View Full Profile →. 1 Small Stones (Mindfulness Monday). 4 3rd Sentence Thursday. Image credits – header slider images. Kat’s Life Lists. 1 Small Stones (Mindfulness Monday). 4 3rd Sentence Thursday. Image credits – header slider images. To receive a more-or-less weekly summary, please enter your email address:. A TinyLetter Email Newsletter. This isnR...
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Ideas – Life, the Universe, and Everything
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Life, the Universe, and Everything. Kat's personal blog. 1 Small Stones (Mindfulness Monday). 4 3rd Sentence Thursday. Looking for something specific? View Full Profile →. 1 Small Stones (Mindfulness Monday). 4 3rd Sentence Thursday. Image credits – header slider images. Kat’s Life Lists. 1 Small Stones (Mindfulness Monday). 4 3rd Sentence Thursday. Image credits – header slider images. To receive a more-or-less weekly summary, please enter your email address:. A TinyLetter Email Newsletter. In A Modern ...
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Pets Cats Traced To Chinese Farmers 5,300 Years Ago
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GENETICS and MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. SCIENCE EDUCATION and POLICY. Subscribe to the newsletter. Stay in touch with the scientific world! Pets Cats Traced To Chinese Farmers 5,300 Years Ago. December 16th 2013 04:31 PM Print. Over five-thousand years, cats began living alongside farmers in the ancient Chinese village of Quanhucun, according to a new paper. Probably because of rodents attracted to food. Using radiocarbon dating and isotopic analyses of carbon and nitrogen traces in the bones of cats, dogs, deer...
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Millennials Don't Trust Twitter As Much As Gen X Marketing Departments Think They Do
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GENETICS and MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. SCIENCE EDUCATION and POLICY. Subscribe to the newsletter. Stay in touch with the scientific world! Millennials Don't Trust Twitter As Much As Gen X Marketing Departments Think They Do. May 14th 2014 10:08 AM Print. If you think young adults regard Twitter and other social media as legitimate news sources, think again - they may be letting you think that, but even then they may be doing it ironically. Kimberly Fenn, assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State Unive...
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