Your tummy knows what it likes. What about your teeth? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. What’s on your plate might shape your smile! Ghazal Aarabi and team at University of Hamburg-Eppendorf studied this. Over six thousand participants logged their eating habits and received dental
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Got a boo-boo? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying.. Ouch! Some cuts and scrapes just won’t go away! Those are called chronic wounds, and they can lead to serious infections. To help fix this, Guopu Chen and team created a special healing gel made
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Is your stomach grumbling? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Watch the clock! Daily routines change as you age, including WHEN you eat breakfast and dinner! What might this timing say about your health? Enter Hassan Dashti and team from Harvard Medical School. They
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Your eyes say more than your lips ever could. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Can your eyes reveal how much your brain remembers? Jordana Wynn and a Canadian team saw the potential. They tracked how people – ranging from healthy young adults to amnesia
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Can we recharge our brains’ batteries? Literally?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Alzheimer’s seems to drain our brains. Some say the disease’s sticky plaques are what causes memory loss. How? Enter Bruce Yankner and team at Harvard. They wondered if the plaques are actually
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Which came first: the chicken… or the T-Rex? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Sixty-five million years ago, the Tyrannosaurus Rex was North America’s apex predator. But… who was king BEFORE the king? Enter Darla Zelenitsky and Jared Voris from the University of Calgary. They
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What your brain needs might just be… under the sea! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease that causes the brain to degenerate. And for reasons still unknown, almost two thirds of patients are women. Why is that? Enter Asger Wretlind
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Tissue regeneration isn’t out of earshot! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Rabbits regenerate ear tissue like no other. What’s their evolutionary secret? Ask Weifeng Lin and team at the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing. They found a gene called Aldehyde1A2 that was active
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Invisible danger in the atmosphere?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… YOLO!!!…or… “You Only Live Once.” Less actually, if you inhale too many aerosols! These are chemical molecules clustered in the atmosphere. They’re bad for our climate and health. We have ways of monitoring
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Touch ID just got a new wrinkle! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Isn’t it yucky when your fingers look like raisins after a pool day? Scientists wondered if wrinkly fingertips “prune” the same way each time. Rachel Laytin and Guy German from Birmingham State
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