Rising energy and gas prices might make you think twice about firing up your stove for a roast or stew. Why cook that meat? After all, your menu could include trendy beef carpaccio, flavorsome wild boar's liver, coppa or ...
Mar 25, 2022
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When we eat food, our gut somehow senses its presence to begin shifting it along our digestive tract, but the question has always been—how?
Mar 7, 2022
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Australian neurobiologists and material scientists have teamed up to innovate the petri-dish to be able to grow and age live brain cells from patients with neurological disorders.
Feb 17, 2022
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In an interconnected world, a pandemic can be overcome only when it is overcome everywhere—no one is safe until everyone is safe. Vaccination delays and supply shortages in protective equipment and treatments increase the ...
Feb 15, 2022
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Scientists have developed a new machine learning model for the discovery of genetic risk factors for diseases such as Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
Jan 18, 2022
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Heart disease can directly cause brain dysfunction early on which could lead to dementia and can triple the amount of an Alzheimer's protein in the brain, say scientists.
Jan 13, 2022
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On Friday, January 7 2022, David Bennett became the world's first person to successfully receive a transplant of a pig's heart. The eight-hour-long operation by surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, ...
Jan 13, 2022
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When Frederick Banting's phone rang one morning in October 1923, it was the call that every scientist must dream of receiving. On the other end of the line, an excited friend asked Banting if he had seen the morning newspapers. ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Before COVID-19, there was tuberculosis. Twentieth century British physician Thomas McKeown controversially proposed that the sharp declines in infectious disease death rates in the late 1900s were due to improved economic ...
Dec 23, 2021
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Smell has the power to transport us across time and space. It could be the sweet fragrance of jasmine, or the musty scent of algae. Suddenly, you are back at your childhood home, or under the burning sun of a distant shore.
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