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Can behavioural interventions improve biological health outcomes?

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Most perimenopause research in the US has collected data from non-Latina white women, meaning that women of other races or ethnicities (who are more likely to experience negative sociocultural and environmental factors) are underrepresented in current knowledge about perimenopause health outcomes.

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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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The study — which involved 811 undergraduate students at Florida International University, a large public university in Miami — is perhaps the biggest randomized study of active learning methods in calculus, says Laird Kramer, a physicist at the university and one of the study’s authors. Students majoring in biology saw the biggest bump.)

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Tackling the Youth Mental Health Crisis Head-On

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In a survey conducted in 2022 by the Institute of Education Sciences, leaders from more than two-thirds of public schools reported an increase in the number of students seeking mental health services since the pandemic, and nearly half of them said they could not effectively provide mental health services to all students in need.

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Dental discoveries: How is dental research improving oral health?

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Dental discoveries: How is dental research improving oral health? Dental scientists at the Iowa Institute of Oral Health Research at the University of Iowa , USA, are studying various aspects of oral health and healthcare, to improve dental practices and keep our teeth and mouths healthy. How do bacteria cause periodontitis?

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How do the head, neck, and heart develop?

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Ziermann, who is studying this group of cells for her research at Howard University. Due to the achievements of modern science, researchers know so much more about the development of these defects now compared to a few decades ago. What is Janine’s research? This mystery has brought Sam and Janine together as researchers.

Biology 79
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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

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His team began its research with the end goal of creating a sustainable and practical alternative to plastic packaging. But our research won’t stop there. The coating can also be recycled with the paperboard, but if it ends up elsewhere, it will naturally degrade with no harmful impact on the ecosystem,” he says.

Biology 84
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The engineering behind Evolutor

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The team in Sheffield has over 40 years of accumulated research experience in applying an evolutionary approach to engineering biology. The engineering behind Evolutor. TALK LIKE A BIOMANUFACTURER. BIOECONOMY — the economic potential of harnessing the power of bioscience. GENOME SEQUENCING. EVOLVING PROPERTIES.