Microplastics are tiny plastic particles smaller than 5mm that have invaded our environment, food, and even our bodies. Studies show they’re in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. While research is still uncovering their full health effects, early evidence suggests they may disrupt hormones, cause inflammation, and even… Read More »
Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published March 4, 2017. One of the most celebrated American writers of her time, Rachel Carson, achieved the impossible: convincing a society intent on mastering and controlling nature that we, as humans, must view ourselves as being part of nature rather than separate from it.… Read More »
Environmental conditions influence our body mass index (BMI) by increasing or decreasing the effect of inherited genetic variations, University of Queenslandresearchers have discovered. A team led by Huanwei Wang and Professor Jian Yangfrom UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience found the opposite for human height – that the genetic effects that influence it are very stable from one environment to another. The… Read More »
By William Weir When it comes to heart disease, the health of the scaffold where cardiac cells grow may be a much bigger factor than previously believed. Stuart Campbell, associate professor of biomedical engineering & cellular and molecular physiology, led a team of researchers examined the effects of a diseased extracellular matrix (ECM) — the… Read More »