A team of researchers led by the University of Plymouth have earned £3.7million from UK Research and Innovation to conduct an unprecedented assessment of the response and resilience of deep sea coral ecosystems. The five-year project will be delivered in collaboration with organisations across the Maldives, Seychelles and Mauritius and will focus on coral reefs below the surface of the Indian Ocean, employing a number of methods to assess their vulnerability to climate change.

The mini review brings together emerging evidence showing that glial cells actively influence disease progression and treatment response. Once considered simple support cells, glia are now recognized as dynamic regulators of brain health, playing both protective and harmful roles in neural function.

A decade-long study led by Penguin Watch¹, at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, has uncovered a record shift in the breeding season of Antarctic penguins, likely in response to climate change. These changes threaten to disrupt penguins’ access to food and increase interspecies competition. The results have been published today (20 January - World Penguin Awareness Day) in the Journal of Animal Ecology.

Researchers in China found alternate wetting and moderate drying irrigation (AWMD) regime significantly increased contents of lipid, TFFAs, FUFAs, linoleic acid and oleic acid in milled rice.

Elevated levels of lipid, TFFAs, FUFAs, linoleic acid, and oleic acid contributed more favorably to enhanced rice cooking and eating quality. The AWMD improved rice cooking and eating quality through optimization of lipid and free fatty acid biosynthesis in rice grains.