Insects are not the only creatures that people question why they exist. There are many other kinds of animals out there that seem to be nothing more than a large nuisance. This includes the rats. It makes many
International law bans and condemns torture, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. However, more than 150 countries follow theInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which states, "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. I...
Gene discovery for orphan diseases: this is why you do itNew disruptive genetic technologies, most notably next generation sequencing, have matured to the point where they are close to implementation into routine clinical practice, and we can confidently predict that they will transform the ...
In science, the division in knowledge between genders continues to exist in all countries, even those that have a highly developed knowledge society.75 The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Women in Science data show that less than 30% of the world's researchers are women,...
How often you'll get sick in a year depends on "how often you're exposed to people in public and what kind of activities you engage in that are going to put you at risk for getting frequent colds," Dr. Thomas Murray, associate professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the Yale Scho...
Why do so many diseases come from bats? byKate Baggaley Many viruses originate in bats, but that doesn’t mean we should live in fear of them. Much about the beginning of theCOVID-19pandemicremains unclear, but it's likely...
Why obesity andmalnutrition often co-exist? 标题“ feast and famine”,字面意思是“盛宴与饥荒”,形成对比,点明了本文主题“有人吃得越来越胖,有人则因吃不上饭而营养不良”。malnutrition表示“营养不良”;mal-是个词缀,表示“糟糕;...
By some estimates, more than half of women have joint pain during menopause. Researchers have long suspected that estrogen plays a role in autoimmune joint diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis because these conditions are much more common in people assigned female at birth than in those assigned ...
So, doctors often have this man-woman-schema, and everything in between doesn’t exist. And if someone is transident, then this person has to change from A to B and not something in between”. As a result, “non-binary people are not taken seriously” and had to “present themselves...
We made updates to the registered protocol. The protocol title was changed from “The barriers of condom use among men who have sex with men (MSM): A systematic review and meta-synthesis” to “Why do men who have sex with men practice condomless sex? A systematic review and meta-synthes...