Researchers with University of California, Berkeley, are exploring a link between a common bovine virus and breast cancer in women. In a study analyzing 239 tissue samples from women diagnosed with breast cancer, scientists found 59 per cent had been exposed to the bovine leukemia virus (BLV) compared to 29 per cent of tissue samples
Common cattle virus linked to breast cancer in women
A high percentage of women with breast cancer has been exposed to the bovine leukemia virus (BLV)
Human security at risk as depletion of soil accelerates, scientists warn
Change is needed so that valuable, non-renewable fertilizers are recycled
Steadily and alarmingly, humans have been depleting Earth’s soil resources faster than the nutrients can be replenished. If this trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with the effects of climate change, will present a huge risk to global food security over the next century, warns a review paper authored by some of the top
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