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The study compares the water turnover of 309 people with a range of lifestyles including farmers, hunter-gatherers, and office workers with that of 72 apes living in zoos and sanctuaries.
To maintain fluid balance within a healthy range, the body of a human or any other animal is a bit like a bathtub: “water coming in has to equal water coming out,” Pontzer says. Lose water by sweating, for example, and the body’s thirst signals kick in, telling us to drink. Chug more water than your body needs, and the kidneys get rid of the extra fluid.
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BTI), has identified genes that allow peaches and their wild relatives to withstand stressful conditions a discovery that can help domesticated peaches acclimatize to climate change.
A behmi tree (Prunus mira), which is a wild relative of the domesticated peach, grows in its native habitat next to a glacier on the Tibetan Plateau. Image Credit: Yong Li, from Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
The research work, which was co-headed by BTI faculty member Zhangjun Fei, analyzed the genes of the wild relatives and landraces of the domesticated peach. Over time, these varieties have adapted to certain local conditions from seven areas in China.
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Old Westbury, NY Akinobu Aki Watanabe, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM), has secured a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).
Watanabe, a vertebrate paleontologist, is the first New York Institute of Technology faculty member to receive a CAREER award, which is one of the NSF s most competitive grants. Principal investigators can receive this award once in their career and may only submit a proposal three times. Watanabe s first submission was selected and is expected to receive a five-year award of $710,855. His research project, Evo-Developmental Inte