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20-Aug-2025

Saving bees with ‘superfoods’ – engineered supplement boosts colony reproduction

University of Oxford
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Biotechnological breakthrough provides essential pollen nutrients for bees

Journal: Nature

20-Aug-2025

Industrial pollution’s imprint lasts generations

University of Utah
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a groundbreaking study, University of Utah researchers found strong evidence that exposure to industrial pollutionduring pregnancy can shape a grandchild’s neurodevelopment. A child has a higher risk of an intellectual disability if their grandmothers lived near industrial facilities while pregnant with a parent, especially the mother. Higher density of industrial facilities corresponded to higher risk for the grandchild.

Journal: Science of The Total Environment
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

20-Aug-2025

New insights into tendinopathy treatment: Rhizoma coptidis active components explored

FAR Publishing Limited
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent study published in Current Pharmaceutical Analysis investigates the therapeutic potential of Rhizoma Coptidis (RC) in tendinopathy treatment using network pharmacology and molecular docking. The research identifies key active components and their targets, suggesting a promising diagnostic model and therapeutic mechanism.

Journal: Current Pharmaceutical Analysis
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China

20-Aug-2025

AI learns biological variability to develop a high-performance serum-free culture medium

University of Tsukuba
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed an AI-powered model that accounts for biological variability to optimize cell culture media. Using this model, they successfully formulated a high-performance serum-free culture medium that achieves approximately 1.6 times higher cell density compared to commercially available options.

Journal: New Biotechnology

20-Aug-2025

Will climate change promote the spread of Dengue fever through Western Europe?

Wiley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Although Dengue fever has long been recognized as a disease of the tropics and sub-tropics, a study published in Global Change Biology reveals that it is likely to spread increasingly northward and through Western Europe as climate change expands the Asian tiger mosquito’s habitat.

Journal: Global Change Biology

20-Aug-2025

Most known species evolved during 'explosions’ of diversity, shows first analysis across ‘tree of life’

Frontiers
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Biologists in the US have shown for the first time that global biodiversity is concentrated within a few disproportionately large groups with exceptional rates of evolutionary diversification. This result suggests that rapid radiations, including adaptive radiations, have generated the majority of life on Earth.

Journal: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

19-Aug-2025

Lead-resistant lizards in New Orleans could hold clues to combating lead poisoning

Tulane University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from Tulane University found that brown anole lizards in New Orleans carry the highest blood-lead levels ever recorded in a vertebrate — amounts that would be lethal to most other animals — yet they appear unaffected. The study, published this month in Environmental Research, found that the lizards’ blood lead levels exceeded all previously reported values for fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles and mammals.

Journal: Environmental Research