Stuff UK

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Breath into the Lumen and it’ll measure your CO2 levels then analyse your metabolism before offering up nutritional advice. It’ll even tell you if you’ve got enough in the tank to work out efficiently. £349 / lumen.me This palm-sized muscle-pummeller

Her World Singapore

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Calecim Serum ($106) contains an 80 per cent concentration of stem cell proteins to help soothe, repair and heal skin. The formula also strengthens skin barrier and improves skin elasticity; clinical studies show a 42 per cent improvement in cell reg

What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

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New research, building on the discoveries of Otto Warburg nearly a century ago, shows how sugar in the diet promotes the growth of cancer, both directly and indirectly through its byproduct, lactate ■

Futurity

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New research sheds light on how certain bacteria get their energy from electrical charges. Bacteria don’t have mouths, so they need another way to bring their fuel into their bodies. The new research reveals how one such bacteria pulls in electrons s

What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

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Our DNA isn’t an instruction book, new research suggests. Instead, it’s just a list of ingredients our cells will use every so often. The real drivers that determine our health are found in the molecules that regulate a cell’s DNA, says Antony Jose,

STAT

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Peter Marks, a top FDA official, shed light on the reasoning behind the agency's choice of a 50% efficacy threshold for a Covid-19 vaccine.

How It Works

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Williams became the first cardiologist to successfully perform a repair of the pericardium – the sac around the heart – during an open-heart surgery in 1893. Just conducted pioneering research in embryonic development and fertilisation. His ground

Science Illustrated

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The MPST gene is hyperactive in the brain cells of schizophrenics. The gene codes for an enzyme that contributes to producing hydrogen sulphide, so that schizophrenics produce excessive quantities of it. Hydrogen sulphide is an antioxidant that prote

STAT

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The real value of using CRISPR on eggs, sperm, or embryos accrues not to the individual who is created but to the people who choose to use it to create…

Boat International US Edition

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Jonathan Rothberg, the owner of Gene Machine, has thrown his energy into developing an easy, reliable in-home coronavirus test that uses Q-tips and enzymes. The award-winning inventor and entrepreneur, who was profiled in the July 2018 issue of BOAT

Futurity

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Researchers are creating synthetic versions of proteins with improved properties. Imagine synthetic antibiotics that could fight infections like MRSA, custom pharmaceuticals to treat advanced prostate cancer, and new enzymes that will turn cellulose

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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A simple swab of your cheek can reveal how your genes affect your diet, weight, fitness and overall wellbeing – and you might be surprised by what you learn. The myDNA genetics test provides insights into which genes you possess and how they affect

T3 India

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Most protein powders follow a one-size-fits-all approach. NGX Nutrition (nutri-genetix.com) is trying to solve this issue by combining genetics with nutrition. As part of the package, a DNA test is conducted that focuses on genes related to nutrition

Popular Science

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MATT WILKINS, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AT THE CENTER FOR SCIENCE OUTREACH AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY The U.S. Geological Survey distributes these half-gram metal bands to help us track birds as they migrate south for the winter. Some of the fliers weigh jus

Liz Earle Wellbeing

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An award-winning, lightweight serum that combines vitamin A and C with Sarah Chapman’s unique antioxidant blend (coenzyme Q10 and L-carnosine, to name a few). £52, spacenk.com Biodegradable capsules (made from red seaweed) protect this potent antioxi

Men's Health Australia

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Taking L-citrulline just before going to sleep helps you to hold onto hard-won muscle mass. Université Paris Descartes Taking vitamin D in summer as well as in winter has been shown to inhibit the growth of fat cells. Tehran University Can’t manage s

Futurity

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A stealthy new drug-delivery system disguises chemotherapy drugs as fat in order to outsmart, penetrate, and destroy tumors. Thinking the drugs are tasty fats, tumors invite the drug inside. Once there, the targeted drug activates, immediately suppre

The Atlantic

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Now that the holidays have come and gone, it’s time to look in the mirror and ask ourselves, “Did I really need to eat the whole box of chocolates?” If you did it in one sitting, you may suffer from Binge Eating Disorder, a newly-sanctioned psychiatr

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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1 Przewalski’s horse (DNA donor) 2 Cells taken from the donor can be used fresh, or frozen for later use 3 Domestic horse egg donor is selected 4 Egg cell taken from horse 5 Nucleus is removed from egg cell 6 Cell is fused with the ‘empty’ egg cell 7

Family Tree UK

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Discover the story of your surname Trace its origins back to medieval times Finding facts in fiction Top historical novels to help you research while you relax Cricketing ancestors What can you learn about their sporting passion? DIGGING DEEPER INTO

Farmer's Weekly

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Mycotoxins in animal feed pose a danger to livestock production in South Africa. DNA sequencing can be used to identify mycotoxins, the first step to tackling the scourge, but this technique is slow and expensive. Next-generation sequencing has b

Kiplinger

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Biotech stocks have been all the rage in 2020 as a number of companies have aspired to correct the COVID-19 pandemic. But then, biotech and biopharmaceutical companies been all the rage for much of the past few decades. The trend started within just

Chat

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Blaming the kids for your grey hair has long been a light-hearted joke, but a recent study looking at the negative affects that a ‘fight or flight’ response has on the body, found that they could in fact be to blame! Chemicals released during this st

Woman's Day

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A simple swab of your cheek can reveal how your genes affect your diet, weight, fitness and overall wellbeing – and you might be surprised by what you learn. The myDNA genetics test provides insights into which genes you possess and how they affect

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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Mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects could be controlled using drugs which delete a newly discovered gene, scientists from Imperial College London have found. The team discovered a new nutrient-sensing protein in the intestines of fruit flie

Her World Singapore

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It was a rare apple that started the phenomenon. The Uttwiler Spatlauber, found in the Swiss Alps, has an unusually long shelf life – it can keep fresh for months. On the tree, if the apple’s skin is nicked, it can regenerate and heal itself. Scienti

Cosmos Magazine

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• Reptiles have hard, keratinised skin, so they don’t shed DNA like other animals do. If a water sample is taken near a crocodile, chances are it won’t be detected. • eDNA metabarcoding isn’t just limited to examining biodiversity. Researchers at Cur

Futurity

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Researchers have discovered that finding that blue light kills cells in flies’ eyes, causing blindness. While it had long been known that blue light will make fruit flies go blind, it wasn’t clear why until now. The findings could further scientists’

PC Gamer

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If this isn’t quite enough cell biology for you, you could do worse than to look at the board game Cytosis by John Coveyou. A worker placement and resource management game, Cytosis takes place within a human cell, and the ‘workers’ you place distribu

STAT

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What a year it's been in the life sciences: CRISPR babies and IPOs galore, high-priced CAR-Ts and gene therapies. We remember it all with the 2018 edition of our year…