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Taco with lime wedge

Menu calorie labels estimated to save U.S. billions on cancer care

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Categories Health, Social Sciences

Fat contributes texture and distinct flavor to farm raised beef (shown here) and other meats. Researchers have replicated the texture and composition of natural fat in fat tissue grown from cells.

Lab-grown fat could give cultured meat real flavor and texture

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Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology

"In the case of compounds that passed the screening, they had virtually no plaques visible after about a week,” says Dana Cairns. This image shows effects of resveratrol compared to control. Photo: Courtesy of Dana Cairns

Green tea and resveratrol reduce Alzheimer’s plaques in lab tests

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Man taking food out of microwave oven

Globally, diets are not much healthier today than they were thirty years ago

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Categories Health, Social Sciences

Varicella zoster virus (VZV), which commonly causes chickenpox and shingles, activates herpes simplex virus (HSV) from dormancy in neural tissue grown in vitro, which then leads to an increase in plaque deposits and decrease in neural signaling - hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease.

Common viruses may be triggering the onset of Alzheimer’s disease

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Chlorine treated water leaves children's healthy gut microbiomes unchanged

Chlorinated water supplies don’t disturb healthy gut microbiomes in young children

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Categories Health

A normal African clawed frog. “It’s exciting to see that the drugs we selected were helping to create an almost complete limb,” said Nirosha Murugan. Photo: Pouzin Olivier, via Creative Commons

Scientists regrow frog’s lost leg

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Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

Computer model seeks to explain the spread of misinformation, and suggest counter measures

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Categories Physics & Mathematics, Social Sciences

Ranking healthfulness of foods from first to worst

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Categories Health

Ultraprocessed foods now comprise 2/3 of calories in children and teen diets

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Categories Health, Social Sciences

Those funky cheese smells allow microbes to ‘talk’ to and feed each other

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Categories Life & Non-humans

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