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Making a cleaner, greener, environmentally safe sunscreen

Posted on May 30, 2018June 14, 2018 by Contributor

Ingredients in many sunscreens are bleaching coral and harming marine life. www.shutterstock.com Yousong Ding, University of Florida As the temperatures rise and Americans swarm to ...

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Zombie Plants: How Phytoplasma turns plants into the ‘budding dead’

Posted on June 12, 2017March 13, 2019 by Priyanka Mishra

“…Zombie Plants” I was listening to Prof. Saskia Hogenhout speak when a phrase she used took me by surprise. Did I hear that correctly? As ...

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Let the clones run wild: vegetative propagation in our daily life

Posted on March 7, 2017March 13, 2019 by Priyanka Mishra

We all remember how at the end of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, the sinister motive behind producing the clones is revealed. How would ...

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Superfood? Diet that mimics fasting regenerates insulin-producing cells and reverses diabetes symptoms

Posted on February 26, 2017March 13, 2019 by Aaram A. Kumar

1 in 11 adults on the planet has diabetes and every six seconds, someone dies from diabetes and related complications. Once upon a time, it ...

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Benign bacteria reduce Zika virus transmission by mosquitoes

Posted on February 23, 2017November 3, 2019 by Lorena Infante

You are probably familiar with Zika fever, an obscure disease that you likely hadn’t heard of until last year when an explosion in the number ...

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Unsound judgments on sound science: myopic misunderstandings of basic research

Posted on January 25, 2017August 14, 2019 by Lorena Infante

Every scientist has experienced it. When they tell someone that they have or are completing a PhD in biomedical sciences, often the first words out ...

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Gut feeling of the brain?

Posted on September 10, 2016March 7, 2018 by Soham Saha

How often have we heard the phrase “my gut feeling is this person is mentally sick”? And how often have you seriously considered it to ...

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Much sweetness can cause sickness: The science behind plant sugars influencing transmission of malaria by mosquitoes

Posted on August 16, 2016March 13, 2019 by Barsha Tripathy

SUMMARY : As part of their natural diet to meet energy requirements, female Anopheles mosquitoes also consume sugars from plant nectar and fruit sap. Such ...

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Staying fit prevents cancer: Who saw that coming?

Posted on May 31, 2016March 12, 2019 by Contributor

Science has verified something you might have intuitively known already. A large proportion of cancer cases and deaths among U.S. individuals who are white might ...

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