News tagged with effects of stress

Social status promotes faster wound healing in wild baboons

Turns out it's not bad being top dog, or in this case, top baboon.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Lizard moms may prepare their babies for a stressful world

Stressed out lizard moms tend to give their developing embryos short shrift, but the hardship may ultimately be a good thing for the babies once they're born, according to a study published in the journal ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study points to the importance of seeking new pine varieties resistant to climate change

The radiata pine is the tree species par excellence in the Basque Country's forests. Like other types of pine, the lack of water is one of the factors having the greatest effect on its survival and productivity. Until now, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Wild orangutans stressed by eco-tourists, but not for long, study out of Borneo finds

Wild orangutans that have come into contact with eco-tourists over a period of years show an immediate stress response but no signs of chronic stress, unlike other species in which permanent alterations in ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lung doctors expect respiratory diseases will worsen with global climate change

Worldwide increases in the incidences of asthma, allergies, infectious and cardiovascular diseases will result from a variety of impacts of global climate change, including rising temperatures, worsening ozone levels in urban ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Mechanism for stress-induced epigenetic inheritance uncovered in new study

Researchers at RIKEN have uncovered a mechanism by which the effects of stress in the fly species Drosophila are inherited epigenetically over many generations through changes to the structure of chromatin, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Stress disrupts human thinking, but the brain can bounce back

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new neuroimaging study on stressed-out students suggests that male humans, like male rats, don’t do their most agile thinking under stress. The findings, published this month in the Proceedings of the Na ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1