Stigma in Biological News

Mate choice in plants

... organ, the pistil, comprises the stigma, style, and ovary. The stigma catches pollen shed by the male anthers. If the pollen is compatible, it ... alata. They have recently identified and characterized another factor, stigma Expressed Protein (NaStEP) in N. alata. Sequencing revealed that it is ...

Providing toilets, safe water is top route to reducing world poverty: UN University

... in Asia consume water containing unsafe levels of arsenic. Providing sanitation in some places is made difficult by tradition and culture the stigma and embarrassment associated with talking and teaching about sanitation. Climate change Climate change is expected to bring more frequent and ...

Early cessation of breastfeeding by HIV+ women in poor countries and child survival

... on through breast milk needed to ward off the deadly infant diseases prevalent in many parts of the world. Formula feeding, also, may carry a social stigma for mothers and is often seen as acknowledgement that a woman has HIV. With these latest findings, the researchers theorize that the chances of ...

Childhood obesity indicates greater risk of school absenteeism, Penn study reveals

... peers, setting themselves up for the negative fallout that accompanies absenteeism. Whats keeping them from school, more than heath issues, is the stigma and the bullying that accompanies being overweight. Future research should explore this additional, very damaging side effect of being overweight. ...

Asian immigrants in NYC not receiving HIV education at religious institutions

... about HIV prevention and healthcare, in part because some leaders hold stigma and fear about the disease, according to a new study by The New York ... the case of HIV, this role is especially important because of the social stigma surrounding HIV and the potentially dire health consequences of not ...

Millions of children denied drug that costs less than $3 a year

... who live in developing countries, around 85% receive no treatment at all. As a result, they experience seizures and the psychological consequences of stigma and discrimination. Regrettably, most of these people, many of whom are children, could return to a normal life by taking a single daily dose of ...

Male circumcision overstated as prevention tool against AIDS

... everything in our power to stop it. To argue we should do nothing about infected prostitutes during an AIDS epidemic because of a fear of creating a stigma against the infected would be like an animal rights activist claiming that a rabid dog must be allowed to run free in a neighborhood regardless of ...

Study highlights new and cheaper way to treat heroin addiction

... maintenance treatment, but dihydrocodeine offers an alternative treatment for those who can’t tolerate methadone, or find it hard to deal with the stigma of having to take their dose ?sometimes every day ?in a pharmacy. It is also much cheaper." The study, the first of its kind in the world, ...

New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community

... address the increasingly disproportionate impact HIV/AIDS is having on the African-American community: Eliminate marginalization of, and stigma and discrimination against, black gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM). African-American MSM is the population hardest hit by HIV, with ...

The secret love life of plants

... when the central cell where endosperm develops is not fertilised.The ovules of flowering plants are housed in a carpel. Pollen lands on the flower's stigma and forms a pollen tube. It then uses each one of its two sperm cells to fertilise the egg cell, from which the embryo hatches, and the central cell, ...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

... in many areas but led to higher costs in the form of fertilizers, additives and special cultivation processes. Even where farming is safe, the stigma associated with Chernobyl caused marketing problems and led to falling revenues, declining production and the closure of some facilities. Combined ...