IDPH looks at potential multistate coalition to offset federal health policy changes
Department of Public Health officials said Thursday they are exploring multistate collaborations to coordinate public health guidelines separate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Communication makes hunting easier for chimpanzees
Similar to humans, chimpanzees use communication to coordinate their cooperative behavior — such as during hunting. When chimpanzees produce a specific vocalization, known as the “hunting bark,” they recruit more group members to the hunt and capture their prey more effectively, researchers at the University of Zurich and Tufts University have now shown. Chimpanzees don’t […]
A single hormone directs body’s responses to low-protein diet: Mice live longer and lose weight while eating more when FGF21 is present
A single hormone appears to coordinate the lifespan extension produced by a low-protein diet. A new study from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that reducing the amount of protein in the diet produced an array of favorable health outcomes, including an extension of lifespan, and that these effects depend […]