Developed countries imposing their own Security Sector Reform (SSR) processes onto nations recovering from war often rely on entrenched colonial attitudes with no guarantee of success. Researchers looked at the weiterlesen…
Volunteers aged 9-10 with dyslexia took less time to read passages from children’s books, possibly thanks to attenuated excitability of the cerebral cortex. weiter … Source:: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181018125148.htm
Girls who play video games are three times more likely to choose physical science, technology, engineering or maths (PSTEM) degrees compared to their non-gaming counterparts, according to new research. weiter weiterlesen…
Our level of alertness rises and falls over the course of a workday, sometimes causing our energy to drop and our minds to wander just as we need to perform weiterlesen…
A recent study finds that parents educated beyond high school have healthier families, as they invest more in family health care which reduces the likelihood of adverse medical conditions. weiter weiterlesen…
A new study found that the social lives of sweat bees — named for their attraction to perspiration — are linked to patterns of activity in specific genes, including ones weiterlesen…
A new approach to genetic analysis finds associations between environmental factors and pharmacogenes — genes associated with a person’s response to drugs — sparking ideas for new research at the weiterlesen…
Die Deutsche Diabetes Gesellschaft (DDG) sieht die Grundsatzvereinbarungen von Ernährungsministerin Julia Klöckner (CDU) kritisch. Nur verpflichtende Maßnahmen seien effektiv im Kampf gegen Fehlernährung. weiter … Source:: http://www.aerztezeitung.de/medizin/krankheiten/diabetes/article/974005/fehlernaehrung-ddg-fordert-industrie-pflicht-nehmen.html
Trypanosoma brucei, which causes sleeping sickness, evades the immune system by repeatedly altering the structure of its surface coat. Sequencing of its genome and studies of its 3D genome architecture weiterlesen…
The new approach lets scientists examine the cumulative effect of multiple gene mutations, providing a much more complete picture of cancers’ causes. weiter … Source:: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181018105319.htm