Tag: "educated" at biology news

Children of smokers have more than 5 times higher levels of a nicotine toxin

...homes because it relies on parents or carers being educated about the harmful effects of passive smoking on their children and then acting on that knowledge....

Designer babies - what would you do for a 'healthy' baby?

...eys of 100-200 participants included: The better educated prospective parents are, the further they are prepared to go to improve their children's IQ. Women interpret certain interventions in child rearing as "design acts" more readily than men. People over 50 interpret certain interventions as "design acts...

Very low birth weight linked to reduced quality of life in pre-school children

...n the control group, and were half as likely to be educated to college degree or higher. 45 per cent didn't work, compared with 17 per cent in the control group. ...

Fire ants: Their true story told by the scientist who loves them

...ience-rich enough for biologists but accessible to educated readers, "The Fire Ants" has "Interludes" ?wry asides on the pleasures and pitfalls as scientists measure and manipulate the ants they love (and that do indeed sting them). Tschinkel's anecdote on shelter is titled "There's Nothing Like Getting Plast...

APS lecturer shows rare video of 'teacher-student' immune cell interactions in live animal

...body," von Andrian said. He traced the path of the educated T cells leaving the lymph node, when they become known as effector cells. In addition, von Andrian addressed how these T cells kill those cells they identified as harboring a pathogen without going on a rampage and annihilating everything in sight. ...

HIV decline in Zimbabwe linked to behavioural change

...ced this change in behaviour, with Zimbabwe's well educated population, good communications, and health service infrastructure, all combining to create this effect." The researchers from Imperial College London and the Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Zimbabwe studied 9,454 people recruited from t...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...utside of agriculture is limited. Many skilled and educated workers, especially younger workers, left the regi...e affected areas became skewed since many skilled, educated and entrepreneurial workers, often younger, left the areas leaving behind an older population with f...

Environmental lessons from tsunami as world's coastal population doubles

...urricanes. The government took positive action and educated communities following two major hurricanes in 1988 and 1998 and were much more able to adapt, cope and recover from Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Traditional farming systems which integrated coffee with maize in Honduras were much better at recovering fro...

MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions

...aduate students and visiting researchers to become educated in modern genomic and bioinformatic techniques that will be widely applicable in the future." This functional genomics research is a collaborative effort spanning several departments in the College of Natural Science, including the departments of Bi...

Discovery of an American salamander where it shouldn't be: Korea

...invaluable to such a rapidly developing and highly educated country." ...

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