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We are delighted to announce that the Forestry Research is now indexed in PubMed Central® (PMC).

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We are delighted to announce that the Technology in Horticulture is now indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

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RICHLAND, Wash. —Tip the first tile in a line of dominoes and you’ll set off a chain reaction, one tile falling after another. Cross a tipping point in the climate system and, similarly, you might spark a cascading set of consequences like hastened warming, rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather. It turns out there’s more to weigh than catastrophic environmental change as tipping points draw near, though.

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A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed.

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The Wistar Institute's Dr. Alessandro Gardini and his lab have published their new paper, “The enhancer module of integrator controls cell identity and early neural fate commitment,” in the journal Nature Cell Biology.

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New research out of Michigan State University found that the number and type of microbes present in the saliva of pregnant women differ according to whether they are experiencing life stress and symptoms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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UM researchers recently developed a new genomics method with the potential to reveal the genetic mechanisms behind human health and disease. The recent publication in the journal Genome Biology offers an innovative new pathway to study the root causes of diseases like cancer and dementia to someday allow for early detection.

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Advancing Robotics with the Power of Touch

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Poor diets have been linked to seven of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States, from heart disease to diabetes and certain types of cancer. Yet many physicians are not equipped to counsel patients about healthy food choices, and most medical students and trainees do not receive adequate training in this discipline.

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Columbia Engineers Knit a “Blanket” of Sophisticated Radio-Frequency Antennas