Researchers studying differences in how individuals respond to stress are finding that genes are malleable and environments can be deterministic.
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In an essay entitled "Nurture, Nature, and the Stress That is Life," neurobiologists Darlene Francis and Daniela Kaufer envision a future where science moves past the nature vs. nurture debate in considering differences in human behavioral responses to stress.
Wangari Maathai, a human rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, started a movement to plant more than 30 million trees and generate nearly 1 million jobs.
People exposed to the dust cloud from the World Trade Center collapse still suffer from health problems.
Stretching muscle cells as they grow helps promote the expression of growth factors.
The federal agency should reduce harmful nitrogen emissions by 25 percent in the next two decades, a new report says.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.
Healthy mice are born from germ cell precursors grown in vitro.
Sequencing the DNA of individual neurons is a way to dissect the genes underlying major neurological and psychological disorders.
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