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Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old
Publicado em 15 abril 2024
That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old.
Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world’s most popular type of coffee, known to scientists as Coffea arabica and to coffee lovers simply as “arabica.”
The researchers, hoping to learn more about the plants to better protect them from pests and climate change, found that the species emerged around 600,000 years ago through natural crossbreeding of two [...]
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Mental Illness May be Waiting for Stressed Out Teens in Adulthood
Publicado em 19 fevereiro 2024SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Teenagers who are constantly stressed out have a higher risk of suffering mental illness when they enter adulthood. Researchers at the University of São Paulo’s Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP-USP) in Brazil have discovered that excessive stress during adolescence can lead to changes in the gene expression in the brain. These changes, particularly in genes related to bioenergy, may impact cell respiration, leading to behavioral [...]ver notícia -
Study Helps Explain Why Stress in Adolescence Can Lead to Predisposition to Mental Illness in Adulthood
Publicado em 12 fevereiro 2024The following is excerpted from an online article posted by MedicalXpress. Excessive stress during adolescence can cause alterations in the profile of genes expressed in the brain, especially those associated with bioenergy functions. These alterations may affect cell respiration, resulting in behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders in adulthood, according to a study in rats conducted by researchers at the University of São Paulo's Ribeirão Preto Medical School [...]ver notícia