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Climate change and agriculture: a unipd study

22.02.2022

A University of Padua study demonstrates why climate change will cause an expansion of areas with an arid climate with conditions leading to water scarcity before 2100, noting that steep-sloped agricultural landscapes are first to be penalized

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Increasing the longevity of biologically engineered heart valve implants

22.02.2022

An international research team led by the University of Padua discovers how to avoid the antibody responses that lead to structural valve degeneration (SVD)

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Ancient combined genetic variants contribute to the physical appearance and physiology of contemporary Europeans

18.02.2022

Research conducted at the universities of Turin and Padua show how migrations during the Neolithic era contributed to the physiology and appearance of contemporary Europeans, publishing their findings Ancestral Genomic Contributions to Complex Traits in Contemporary Europeans in the prestigious journal Current Biology.

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Cancer cells, working towards new therapeutic approaches

18.02.2022

An international research group coordinated by Sirio Dupont of the Department of Molecular Medicine of the University of Padua published a study in the journal Nature Cell Biology demonstrating that cancer cells found in "soft" environments, such as in the lung, witness metabolism changes and becomes resistant to some chemotherapy drugs

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Rhesus Monkeys: Using Numbers and Videogames to Demonstrate their Understanding of the Relative Numerical Middle

18.02.2022

Relative numerical middle in rhesus monkeys: the study published by researchers from the University of Padua and the University of Pennsylvania about monkeys

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