Can a £1,300 pot of manuka REALLY heal you? Scientists say store-bought honey’s antibacterial properties may be overestimated by the public due to a lack of rigorous controls True Honey Company’s Rare Harvest New Zealand Manuka Honey costs £1,349 Studies suggest that honey with high levels of MGO has anti-bacterial properties A study examined the antimicrobial […]
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Close to 1,300 cases of vaping-linked illness now identified
(HealthDay)—The number of Americans sickened with a severe lung injury tied to vaping just keeps rising, U.S. health officials said Thursday. “As of Oct. 8, 2019, 1,299 confirmed and probable lung injury cases associated with use of electronic-cigarette, or vaping, products were reported by 49 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands,” […]
Widely used reference for the human genome is missing 300 million bits of DNA
For the past 17 years, most scientists around the globe have been using the nucleic acid sequence, or genome, an assembly of DNA information, from primarily a single individual as a kind of “baseline” reference and human species representation for comparing genetic variety among groups of people. Known as the GRCh38 reference genome, it is […]