All hail, King Garfield the First! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. What exactly makes an orange cat… orange? Why are they gingers? Are they IRISH? To find the answer… let’s go to JAPAN… and meet Hidehiro Toh and team at Kyushu University. They compared
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Take a chill pill! For the grandbabies! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Our D-N-A code makes us who we are! But how does stress affect that code? Enter Stephanie King and team at the University of Lethbridge. They investigated how stress is carried across
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Talk about life’s NUMTS and bolts! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Mitochondria – your body’s energy supplier – has a side hustle: inserting their D-N-A into your brain! Should we be afraid?! Enter the Mills team at the University of Michigan. They examined little
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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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Aww… you have your mother’s… poison?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Ever wish you could “turn off” something you don’t like about yourself? Our genes get turned on and off by D-N-A switches when we’re conceived. But sometimes even that can work against you!
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We can rebuild him! We have the technology. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. D-N-A is the molecular blueprint of life, so why not change it to our advantage? It’s as easy as…forcing two opposing magnets together. Huh… There must be a way. Enter the
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Can you even imagine a time before … horses? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. In the early two-thousands, archeologists in modern-day Syria found bones of a horse-like creature. The bones were over forty-five hundred years old! But horses weren’t introduced to the area for
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Howdy, neigh-bear! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, and the story of three bears… The Indigenous First Nations of modern British Columbia hold strong connections to wildlife. One venerated animal? The grizzly bear, which has shared their homeland for millennia. Recently, grizzlies appeared in new
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Love is in the air tonight … or is that giraffe DNA? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Imagine trying to study animals that are always in hiding! Animal ecologists can relate! Scientists can learn a lot about elusive sea creatures by analyzing their environmental
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Has addiction gone VIRAL? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Retroviruses like HIV make us sick by inserting their genes into our cells. Usually, these genes cause cells to make new copies of the retrovirus. But occasionally, the genes mutate and can’t make new viruses.
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