Wednesday, January 15

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Is Marijuana Bad for Health? Here’s What We Know So Far

Is Marijuana Bad for Health? Here’s What We Know So Far

Science and Nature
Cannabis's health effects-- great and bad-- are entering focusBy Jesse Greenspan Credit: Cappi Thompson/Getty ImagesWith years of legal and social opprobrium fading quickly, cannabis has actually ended up being a very popular business item with more than 48 million users throughout the U.S. Health issues, as soon as overemphasized, now frequently appear to be minimized or neglected. Pregnant clients "frequently inform me they had no concept there's any threat," states University of Utah obstetrician Torri Metz, lead author of a current paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association on marijuana and negative pregnancy results.Legal reforms are likewise slowly making it simpler to study cannabis's health results by providing U.S. researchers more access to the drug and a broader po...
What can bulls inform us about males?

What can bulls inform us about males?

Science and Nature
Infertility is an extensive issue: worldwide, one in 8 couples stop working to satisfy their desire to have kids within a year-- and even at all. In half the cases, this is because of fertility conditions that originate from the male. It is hard to determine the hereditary causes of such fertility conditions in human beings. Scientists do not have information on the quality of semen and on molecular markers from adequately big mates of healthy males of reproductive age. The course to a much better understanding of which genes and systems manage male fertility for that reason lies through ideal lab animals-- in this case, bulls. A research study group led by Hubert Pausch, Professor of Animal Genomics at ETH Zurich, studied young bulls to examine in information which genes are active in var...