Want a D-N-A glow up?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science… saying eat your veggies! Michael Nshanian and team at Stanford University studied how fiber-packed diets affect cancer. When digested, fiber produces molecules called propionate and butyrate. And they don’t just loosen things up in
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Was the first Grecian formula… Roman? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. When it came to coloring hair, Ancient Rome was startlingly advanced. Their recipe for hair dye combines lead, sulfide, and lime. This creates nanocrystals which grow not just INSIDE hair strands but in
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Supermom, activate: baby force field! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your body’s immune system has its own peacekeepers called regulatory T-cells. They help balance your body’s reactions to invading microbes! But can a pregnant mother’s immune system distinguish HER BABY from a germy invader?
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Wanna heart that won’t quit? Jumping jacks, now! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. It’s hard to find time for long workouts, especially with busy schedules. But good news, long hours aren’t needed to be heart healthy. Emmanuel Stamatakis and team from the University of
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Can your brain handle outer space? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Davide Marotta and team from New York wondered how gravity affects the brain. Combining different types of sticky brain cells, they made tissue-like structures called organoids. And… BLAST OFF! Organoids were sent to
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Is the path to walking again just a spark away? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Enter Simone Romeni and team at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. They’re paving the way for spinal cord injury recovery. They use a groundbreaking treatment called high-frequency epidural electrical stimulation.
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What does space taste like? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is back! With flavor! What flavor? Rock samples from Bennu, a billions of years old asteroid. And the taste is… familiar! Salt minerals! Similar to what’s left behind when water evaporates
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Taxi! I can’t remember how to get home! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Guess what: Taxi Drivers have a lower death rate from Alzheimers. What gives? Meet Vishal Patel and team at Harvard Medical School. They analyzed U.S. deaths across over four hundred different
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Who’s that rowdy DJ… in your lungs?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Ever had a party crasher? Meet T.mu, a gut bacteria turning your lungs into an unexpected rave. Kyle Burrows from the University of Toronto uncovered T.mu’s surprising role. It invites immune cells
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Look out! It’s the A-Team: A-I and A-S-L! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Sign language combines hand and body movements with facial expressions to communicate. Translator apps and software have to work very differently for this visual language. PLUS, sign language is not universal;
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