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Anna Savage – The canary in the coal mine

Frontiers

If we’re trying to figure out how we can create a situation where populations of organisms that are threatened are going to be able to recover and succeed on their own, it’s all about what’s going to happen in terms of their evolutionary change. Where did it come from? Why did it show up all of a sudden?

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The Environmental Catastrophe that is PFAS will see Movement in 2023

Greenbuilding Law

Lest there be any question, this is a big deal because a peer reviewed 2020 study cited approvingly by the EPA describes 99.7% studies indicate that PFOA can cause reproductive and developmental, liver and kidney, and immunological effects in laboratory animals, and have caused tumors in animal studies.” This year began with the U.S.

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Ask a Scientist: How to Disarm Disinformation

Union of Concerned Scientists

What are the best ways to recognize it for what it is and combat it? in immunology and microbiology, about her guide’s main points and asked her to share some real-world examples of advocacy groups that have disarmed disinformation. Our society is awash in disinformation. Lies about vaccines. Lies about the last election.

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Space travel alters gene expression in white blood cells, weakening our immune system

Frontiers

But what could cause such an immune deficit? Prophylaxis against immune deficits in space “The next question is how to apply our findings to guide the design of countermeasures that will prevent immune suppression while in space in particular for long duration flight,” said Laneuville. months between 2015 and 2019.

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