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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 13-Dec-2025 00:11 ET (13-Dec-2025 05:11 GMT/UTC)
Eight sessions of non-invasive brain stimulation improve postural response in people with Parkinson’s disease
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo- Journal
- Gait & Posture
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Smallholder farms maintain strong pollinator diversity – even when far from forests
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical AgriculturePeer-Reviewed Publication
- Journal
- Ecology Letters
Transfusing blood from old mice accelerates Alzheimer's progression in an animal model
MELISA InstitutePeer-Reviewed Publication
A new study demonstrates that factors present in aged blood can accelerate the accumulation of amyloid proteins and influence behavior in an experimental mouse model of Alzheimer's.
- Journal
- Aging-US
Study proves the anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and anti-arthritic actions of a plant used in folk medicine
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- Journal of Ethnopharmacology
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Descriptions of mollusks in the Global South are still, for the most part, the result of ‘parachute science’
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences
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“Water for All: A study that shows which watersheds we must protect today to live tomorrow”
Escuela Superior Politecnica del LitoralGalápagos is a living laboratory where every environmental decision matters. On Santa Cruz, the most populated island of the archipelago, freshwater is a limited and increasingly vulnerable resource due to urban growth, agricultural pressure, saltwater intrusion, and climate change. In this context, understanding how water behaves across the landscape becomes essential for water security.
Our study proposes a geomorphological approach to identify which watersheds offer the best conditions for water conservation, which require immediate intervention due to their susceptibility to erosion, and which could be suitable for sustainable agricultural activities.
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- Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
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- Proyecto IsVolc (VRIDI-001-2024), Desarrollo Resiliente al Clima: Estrategias Innovadoras en Sistemas Socioecológicos Priorizados de las Islas Galápagos (ClimReD Galápagos), CIPRRD-1-2023
Parasitic fungus may have emerged 18 million years before the ants with which it lives today
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- Communications Biology
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Hormonal fluctuations affect women’s immunity, but a lack of rigor in studies still prevents a consensus
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
- Journal
- Maturitas
- Funder
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
The presence of a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide by three to five times
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- Harvard Review of Psychiatry
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