Prenatal exposure to phthalate mixtures and child neurodevelopment in toddlers aged 1-3 years from the PROTECT birth cohort

1 week 6 days ago
Seonyoung Park
Phthalates are widely used plasticizers and solvents in a variety of consumer and personal care products, resulting in ubiquitous exposure across the general population. Pregnancy represents a particularly critical window of vulnerability, as prenatal phthalate exposures have been linked to adverse health outcomes, including preterm birth and child developmental problems. While growing evidence highlights potential neurotoxic effects in children, few studies have examined the combined impact of...

Prenatal exposure to phthalate mixtures and child neurodevelopment in toddlers aged 1-3 years from the PROTECT birth cohort

1 week 6 days ago
Seonyoung Park
Phthalates are widely used plasticizers and solvents in a variety of consumer and personal care products, resulting in ubiquitous exposure across the general population. Pregnancy represents a particularly critical window of vulnerability, as prenatal phthalate exposures have been linked to adverse health outcomes, including preterm birth and child developmental problems. While growing evidence highlights potential neurotoxic effects in children, few studies have examined the combined impact of...

Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets

1 week 6 days ago
Ana M M Sequeira
The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of threatened species will be achieved. We assembled a multi-taxa tracking dataset (11 million geopositions from 15,845 tracked individuals across 121 species) to provide a global assessment of space use of highly mobile marine megafauna, showing that 63% of the area that they cover is used 80% of the time...

Genome-wide association study for ashy stem blight resistance in USDA common bean germplasm

1 week 6 days ago
Ainong Shi
Ashy stem blight (ASB), caused by the fungus Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goidanich, poses a significant threat to common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivation worldwide. Due to the limited effectiveness of fungicides against ASB, the development of genetically resistant cultivars offers an eco-friendly and sustainable management strategy. This study aimed to accelerate genetic improvement in common bean by integrating molecular breeding tools with conventional breeding approaches to...

RIKEN: FY 2025 Call for RIKEN ECL Team / Unit Leaders

2 weeks ago
Team Leader: 10.92million yen per year, Unit Leader: 8.52 million yen per year: RIKEN: Job summary: RIKEN offers junior PI positions in RIKEN Early Career Leaders Program for highly talented junior researchers. Wako, Tsukuba, Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Others