Blood is thicker than… OATMEAL?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Extra weight brings extra fat to your blood, and heart trouble. What if we could dodge it without losing a pound? Enter Stefanie Zorn’s team at the University of Cambridge . They studied a
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Can we outwit cancer’s dirtiest tricks? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Pancreatic and colorectal cancers are among the deadliest. And mutations – like one named KRAS – put their growth into overdrive. What do we do? Zev Wainberg and team at UCLA tested a
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Which hurts more—creeping barefoot across a bed of hot coals, or shoving razor sharp knives into your arms? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying: Neither! At least for members of certain street-performing family from Pakistan. All six members were born with the inability to
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