Looking into the Future

Hold on! What’s this say…? Oh! It says “I’m Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science.” Whoof. Getting old is hard on your eyes. But! Alexandra Bernardo-Colón and team at the National Eye Institute just might keep blindness at bay. Aging and disease cause the death of eye

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Outwitting the Scale

Pop til you drop… weight?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Medicines like Ozempic melt the pounds away! But here’s the catch: almost HALF of what’s lost could be muscle. That’s an ancient survival trick — our bodies shed muscle when food is scarce. Can

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Bald No More

Sweet chrome dome, Ratman! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your hair interacts a lot with the skin and blood vessels around its roots. Sometimes these interactions don’t go according to plan, leading to balding. Could the future of hair loss treatment be fixing blood

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