A new study, led by CABI scientist Dr. Elizabeth Finch, is the first to investigate the impacts of swidden agriculture on ant communities across the full degradation gradient, highlighting the utmost importance of the conservation of existing closed canopy forests. Swidden agriculture, known more commonly as slash and burn agriculture, is a widespread subsistence farming method […]

University of Wisconsin-Madison Summary: Small, unique antibody-like proteins known as VNARs — derived from the immune systems of sharks — can prevent the virus that causes COVID-19, its variants, and related coronaviruses from infecting human cells, according to a new study. Small, unique antibody-like proteins known as VNARs — derived from the immune systems of […]

Published Jan. 18 in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. By examining tiny vessels inside a person’s eyes, doctors  might one day be able to predict that person’s risk of early death, according to a new study. Though the risk of illness and early death generally increases with chronological age, that risk can vary quite a bit […]