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(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Some international-security experts say that climate-change-related damage to global ecosystems and the resulting competition for natural resources may increasingly serve as triggers for wars and other conflicts in the future.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Researchers trying to determine whether nature or nurture determines an ant's status in the colony have found a surprising answer.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Researchers report this week that chronic exposure to estradiol, the main estrogen in the body, diminishes some cognitive functions.

Rats exposed to a steady dose of estradiol were impaired on tasks involving working memory and response inhibition, the researchers found.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) With more new mothers in the workplace than ever before, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of child care facilities in the United States.

At the same time, data from a variety of sources point to a growing prevalence of overweight infants and toddlers.

Is there a connection? According to a new study, child care factors and feeding practices may indeed play a role.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Each thought or action sends a million electrical signals pulsing through your body.

At the heart of the process of generating these electrical impulses is the ion channel. A new study sheds light on a longstanding debate over how they open and close.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Researchers have discovered a new family of agents that inhibit the growth of estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells.

The finding, described today at a meeting of the Endocrine Society, has opened an avenue of research into new drugs to combat estrogen-dependent breast cancers.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A higher-protein diet that emphasizes lean meats and low-fat dairy foods as sources of protein and calcium can mean weight loss without bone loss -- and the evidence is in bone scans taken throughout a new University of Illinois study.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Two University of Illinois researchers have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.

Phillip Newmark has been "instrumental in establishing planarians as a model system for studying regeneration at the molecular level." And Wilfred van der Donk will work to identify and exploit new classes of compounds that have potential as antibiotics.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Helicobacter pylori is one tough bug. It can survive in the human stomach, a zone with a pH somewhere between that of lemon juice and battery acid.

Now researchers have discovered how an H. pylori toxin gets into cells, a feat that helps the bacterium live in one of the most inhospitable environments in the body.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Researchers at the University of Illinois report this week that a plant compound found in abundance in celery and green peppers can disrupt a key component of the inflammatory response in the brain.