Porpoises that strand in the Netherlands have, on average, a lower BMI than their counterparts in Scotland and elsewhere. This is according to an international study led by Utrecht University in collaboration with the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS), based at the University of Glasgow.
US-based academic Prof Ardem Patapoutian won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2021 for his discovery of how the body senses touch, pressure, pain and movement.