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A vaccine for edible plants to replace traditional pesticides - A new approach to plant protection involves vaccinating plants against pathogens with double-stranded RNA molecules that can be sprayed directly on the leaves.

7 years ago helsinki.fi vaccine

Smiling human faces are attractive to dogs – thanks to oxytocin: Researchers found that oxytocin made dogs interested in smiling human faces

7 years ago helsinki.fi

”Morning larks” have weaker sleep spindles (bursts of brain activity on EEG) during night than “night owls”, in the first study to show a link between circadian preference and specific brain activity, as measured by sleep EEG monitoring in adolescents.

7 years ago helsinki.fi brain

Human empathy can even extend to dogs: empathetic people interpret dogs’ facial expressions more intensely.

8 years ago helsinki.fi

The relative impact of genetics on height does not increase with improvements to the standard of living, finds a study on the impact of genetic and environmental factors on adult height over more than a century, with 40 twin cohorts, including more than 143,000 twin pairs from 20 countries.

8 years ago helsinki.fi genetics

High resting heart rate and blood pressure linked to later mental health disorders

8 years ago helsinki.fi

MOOC: Functional programming with Clojure

10 years ago mooc.cs.helsinki.fi clojure lisp