The Guardian reveals a … well, a revealing discovery, that a common food dye can be used to make skin and muscle transparent enough for doctors to spot tumors or diagnose injuries: … Read the rest “Take a look inside by dyeing your skin transparent.”
Science Daily reminds us again of the charms of the humble, unkillable water bear, the tardigrade, a creature that can withstand nearly anything and just keep on going: dehydration, radiation,… Read the rest “Tardigrade proteins can slow aging in humans.”
STAT reports on a new study that might be getting to the root of the long-covid brain fog, finding that the symptom appears to go hand-in-hand with a lack of free-floating serotonin in the … Read the rest “Unlocking brain fog: is it serotonin?”
The University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering has announced that they’ve come up with a way to make a person’s immune system forget a molecule… Read the rest ““Inverse vaccine” could treat autoimmune diseases.”
Science Alert reports on research that finds that boosting levels of the amino acid taurine – present in meat, fish, and dairy, and one that our bodies can be trained to produce on their… Read the rest “Taurine, not telomeres, could be the key to a longer lifespan.”
Progesterone is a hormone released by ovaries. It’s made from cholesterol, which might seem odd. It’s a key component in birth-control pills and in hormone replacement therapy… Read the rest “Science Art: 20alpha-Dihydroprogesterone 3D spacefill, by Jynto, 2011.”
Inverse considers the environmental power of the cow, whose immense domestic population increases greenhouse gases (pardon me), but could also, new research proposes, be harnessed … Read the rest “Using cows to end plastic pollution.”
Science News celebrates a discovery that may save the lives of hundreds of eagles, ducks, and other birds living on or near lakes in the southeastern United States every year. They’ve… Read the rest “After 20 years, they found the weird toxin that’s been killing eagles.”
Popular Science has more on the hormone from mouse livers that cuts sugar cravings:
… Read the rest “Mouse livers could cure your sweet tooth.”The scientists found that in the rodents, a hormone generated by the liver suppresses the brain’s sugar
Aeon asks some interesting questions about what’s really making us fatter – and why:
… Read the rest “If our diets alone are making us obese, why are vervet monkeys and mice overweight too?”As Richard L Atkinson, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at the
Live Science grants us deep insight into the biochemistry of the bar pickup, revealing that prospective partners look a whole lot better after they’ve had one drink than they do after… Read the rest “One drink makes you cuter. (Not the people around you, but the person doing the drinking.)”
L.A. Times examines the biochemical power that love – or at least the “love hormone” oxytocin – has to neutralize alcohol and beat alcoholism:
… Read the rest “Love (hormone) against alcoholism.”…[N]ew
SONG: “White Coffee and Omelets.”
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SOURCE: Based on “Cut Sugary Drinks; Add Coffee, Eggs“, Laboratory Equipment, 20 February 2015,as used in… Read the rest “SONG: White coffee and omelets.”
Laboratory Equipment preaches the (newly embraced) health benefits of a cholesterol-laden, high-caffeine breakfast, championing the joys of coffee and eggs, hold the sugar, not the… Read the rest “Breakfast is championed (at last)”
Science Daily takes a look at propolis, the sticky putty-like stuff honeybees use to seal up their hives. There are all kinds of health claims made about it, but one study shows that it can … Read the rest “Honeybee stuff makes your hair grow.”
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