Over the past decades, Brazil has become the world’s leading soybean producer, as well as the leading consumer of pesticides. Despite concerns about potential public health consequences, little is known about the effects of pesticide exposure in the general population. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in collaboration with the University of… Read More »
Poor air quality linked to cognitive problems in babies — ScienceDaily
Poor air quality could be causing cognitive deficits in babies and toddlers, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. A new study published today reveals an association between poor air quality in India and impaired cognition in infants under two. Without action, the negative impact on children’s long-term brain development could have… Read More »
Preterm babies do not habituate to repeated pain — ScienceDaily
Preterm infants do not get used to repeated pain in the way that full-term infants, children and adults do habituate to pain, finds a study led by UCL (University College London) researchers. The authors of the new Current Biology paper say that if preterm infants have not yet developed the mechanism that enables people to… Read More »
Whether born naturally or via Cesarean section, babies receive essential microbes from their mothers — ScienceDaily
Do cesarean-born babies miss out on essential microbes? New evidence suggests that the answer may be “no.” Researchers report March 8 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe that mothers are able to transfer microbes to their babies via alternative, compensatory routes. While cesarean-born babies do receive less of their mother’s gut microbiome during birth,… Read More »
Newborns explosed to preeclampsia, gestational diabetes were biologically younger than their chronologic gestational age — ScienceDaily
Gestational diabetes and preeclampsia may be linked to slower biological development in infants, according to a new study led by USC. The research, published today in JAMA Network Open, found that newborns exposed to these two pregnancy complications were biologically younger than their chronologic gestational age. The infants’ biological or “epigenetic” age is based on… Read More »
Babies can form memories of masked faces, researchers find — ScienceDaily
Babies learn from looking at human faces, leading many parents and childhood experts to worry about possible developmental harm from widespread face-masking during the pandemic. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, allays those concerns, finding that 6- to 9-month-old babies can form memories of masked faces and recognize those faces… Read More »
