Dietary Changes Can Change the Way Sugar Tastes
Razi Berry Researchers at the University of Sydney have discovered the basic science of how sweet taste perception is fine-tuned in response to different diets. While it has long been known that food can taste differently based on previous experience, until now we didn’t know the molecular pathways that controlled this effect. The molecular pathways […]
Study on Antibacterial Action of Silver
Razi Berry The antimicrobial properties of silver have been known for centuries. While it is still a mystery as to exactly how silver kills bacteria, University of Arkansas researchers have taken a step toward better understanding the process by looking at dynamics of proteins in live bacteria at the molecular level. How silver kills bacteria […]
Financial Success and Self-Worth are Two Different Things
Razi Berry While researchers have suggested that individuals who base their self-worth on their financial success often feel lonely in everyday life, a newly published study by the University at Buffalo and Harvard Business School has taken initial steps to better understand why this link exists. Researchers have suggested that individuals who base their self-worth […]
Preventing and Removing SARS-CoV-19 From Water Supplies
Razi Berry Scientists know that coronaviruses, including the SARS-CoV-19 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, can remain infectious for days — or even longer — in sewage and drinking water. Scientists know that coronaviruses can remain infectious for days — or even longer — in sewage and drinking water Two researchers, Haizhou Liu, an associate […]
Heavy Drinking Later in Life Leads to Weight Gain
Razi Berry More than half of drinkers aged 59 and over have been heavy drinkers and this is linked to a significantly larger waistline and increased stroke risk, according to a new UCL study. More than half of drinkers aged 59 and over have been heavy drinkers and this is linked to a significantly larger […]
We Tend to ‘Copy’ Our Friends’ Eating Habits
Razi Berry The research, by Aston University’s School of Life and Health Sciences, found that study participants ate an extra fifth of a portion of fruit and vegetables themselves for every portion they thought their social media peers ate. So, if they believed their friends got their ‘five a day’ of fruit and veg, they […]
How is Breathing Related to ‘Free Will?’
Razi Berry Do you inadvertently make decisions because you are hungry or cold? In other words, does the brain’s processing of internal bodily signals interfere with your ability to act freely? This line of thinking is at the heart of research that questions our ability to act on thoughts of free will. We already know […]
UMass Developed Design to Produce Low Cost Face Shields for PPE
Razi Berry In just under two weeks, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with engineers, nurses and other health care professionals, have developed a design informed by clinical feedback for protective plastic face shields as the nation combats the spread of the coronavirus. It will be made available to manufacturers to mass-produce personal protective […]
Vaccine for COVID-19 Being Tested in Australia
Razi Berry South Australian researchers working with Oracle Cloud technology and vaccine technology, developed by local company Vaxine Pty Ltd, are testing a vaccine candidate against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The team is headed by Nikolai Petrovsky, Flinders University Professor and Research Director at Vaxine. Oracle tapped for technical collaboration, an […]
A Model on Effects of School Closures on Potential Health-Care Worker Absenteeism
Razi Berry US policymakers considering physical distancing measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 face a difficult trade-off between closing schools to reduce transmission and new cases, and potential health-care worker absenteeism due to additional childcare needs that could ultimately increase mortality from COVID-19, according to new modelling research published in The Lancet Public Health […]