Sweetening the Bitter

When life gives you grapefruit… BLECH! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Bitter fruits can be hard to enjoy. Citrus grown in colder climates is extra bitter! If only there was a way to turn bitter into sweet…  Well, Elena Plesser and team at the

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Fat Fighter

Could the cure for cancer be… your own fat?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Cancer cells grow by stealing glucose and fatty acids from our bodies. What if we cut off their supply? Researchers at U-C San Francisco have developed a way to do

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Plant Steroids

Beanie Babies are back… on the menu?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Growing food is great! Chemical fertilizers polluting the environment? Not so great.  Enter Nicola Cook and team at the John Innes Center in the U-K. They found a way to give plants a

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Parental Poison

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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