How much you need: 600 micrograms daily. The minimal supplementation recommendation is 400 mcg in a vitamin/supplement. The rest women can get from their diet. Why you need it: Folate helps your babyâs brain and nervous system develop, which happens early in your pregnancy.
Furthermore as the human population is growing in towns and cities they are badly damaging chimpsâ habitats. The apes have been pushed far back so that the humans could encroach what is rightfully theirs. These human developments have left adverse effects on animalsâ homes leaving only isolated pockets of forests.
Zika virusâs spread adds urgency to gene editing that could allow scientists to program the insects to die off, but the idea is fraught with quandaries. Updated Sept. 2, 2016 1:37 p.m. The death toll from diseases carried by mosquitoes is so huge that scientists are working on a radical idea. Why not eradicate them? Mosquitoes kill more humans than any other animal and were linked to roughly 500,000 deaths in 2015, mostly from malaria. For more than a century, humans have used bed nets, screens and insecticides as weapons, but mosquitoes keep coming back. They are now carrying viruses like Zika and dengue to new...