Monthly Archives: July 2018
Wearable Biosensor Detects Stress from Sweat
Image credit: Onur Parlak/ SU. By drawing in a bit of sweat, a patch developed in the lab of Alberto Salleo can reveal how much cortisol a person is producing. Cortisol is known...
Food for thought: How the brain reacts to food may be linked to overeating
The reason why some people find it so hard to resist finishing an entire bag of chips or bowl of candy may lie with how their brain responds to food rewards, leaving them more...
“Genetic Theft” – Bats Loot Gene From Ebola Ancestors, Why?
Study suggests that a gene encoding a viral protein has been carefully preserved in Myotis bats for millions of years Some 18 million years ago, an ancestor of mouse-eared...
It’s less than 2cm long, but this 400 million year old fossil fish changes...
An artist’s reconstruction of the ancient fish Ligulalepis. Brian Choo, Author provided Alice Clement, Flinders University and John Long, Flinders University Published today,...
Coke has promised ‘less sugar’, but less is still too much
Many new products contain artificial sweeteners, which come with their own set of problems. from www.shutterstock.com Rosemary Stanton, UNSW At last count, 28 countries and...
Blueprint emerges for helping women patent, commercialize research
The theme of International Women’s Day this past March may have been “gender parity,” but at the rate things are going, women won’t file as many patents as men in a...
Enzyme discovery could help in fight against TB
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. An enzyme structure discovery made by scientists at the University of Warwick could...
Air pollution contributes significantly to diabetes globally
New research links outdoor air pollution — even at levels deemed safe — to an increased risk of diabetes globally, according to a study from Washington University School of...
Low-carb, high-fat diet may boost targeted cancer therapy
A very low carbohydrate, high-fat diet called the ketogenic diet may improve the effectiveness of an emerging class of cancer drugs, according to a study in mice by investigators...
App Switches You to Choose Healthier Options At Super Markets
Credit @ Northwestern University Drop that yogurt. Instead, try this one with less sugar, fat and fewer unpronounceable additives. That’s the message from FoodSwitch — a...
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