Can even a single-celled organism truly learn? In Episode 70, Jeremy Gunawardena with the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School talks with us about his replication of an experiment originally conducted over a century ago, which suggested that at least one single-cell organism – the trumpet-shaped Stentor roeseli – is able to carry out surprisingly complex decision-making behaviors.
Mass layoffs linked to violent offenses and property crimes
Workers who lose jobs during mass layoffs found to commit 60% more property crimes in the year of displacement, and have 20% more criminal charges than when employed.
Commentary on how chronic stress affects a bevy of social and non-emotional domains, from depression, anxiety, cognition, mood, and sleep, to planning, problem solving, attentional bias to negative information.
Pregnant women with COVID-19 seem unable to pass virus to babies
As with SARS and MERS, COVID-19 does not appear to transfer through intrauterine system from mothers to their fetuses, but unlike SARS and MERS, no maternal deaths have occurred across 38 births recorded thus far.
Scope creep in the EPA's so-called "transparency" regulation which scientists worry will enable industry groups opposed to tougher regulation to prevent the agency from using certain kinds of studies.
Scientists successfully test method allowing rats to receive transplanted organs from completely mismatched donor by training their immune systems to accept it as if it came from a twin ... while keeping the rest of their immune system intact.
