Archive: 08/01/2018
Can eating sugar cause cancer?
A recent study published by Belgian biologists found a relationship between glucose (sugar) and the activation of a gene that stimulates the growth of cancer cells. This led to public fear that everything with sugar should ...
Jan 8, 2018
Toll from listeria outbreak in S.Africa reaches 61
The number of deaths from a year-long outbreak of listeriosis, caused by a food-borne bacteria, has jumped to 61, South Africa's health minister said on Monday.
Jan 8, 2018
Mechanism that converts white fat to brown identified
An international team of researchers led from Karolinska Institutet have, in experiments on mice, pinpointed a mechanism for the conversion of energy-storing white fat into energy-expending brown fat. The study is published ...
Jan 8, 2018