How does nature nurture your newborn?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Plant life in cities improves our health. But could it also make an impact… in the womb? Enter Mengyi Li and team from the University of California Irvine. They scoured health records of
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Can floss STRING along a healthier future? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Needles are scary, but germs are scarier. What if staying healthy meant only a little dental TLC? Enter Rohan Ingrole and team at Texas Tech University. Instead of needles, they used floss
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Join the enzyme evolution revolution… today! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Enzymes are cellular machines that perform a wide variety of critical tasks for human health. What if we crank them up? Researchers have tried a technique called ‘continuous evolution’ that uses millions of
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Is it just me, or is seafood getting … crunchier? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The waves of the Atlantic carry an invisible danger – nanoplastics. These particles are tiny; about a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand. Enter Dušan Materić and
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Is the cure for cancer… psychedelic mushrooms?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Of course not! But they could make life easier for cancer patients. How’s that? Enter Manish Agrawal’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. They ran a clinical trial for the drug
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Can E.T. survive UV?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Other planets are uninhabitable because stars emit intense ultraviolet radiation. This UV radiation is toxic to living organisms, or is it…? Enter Tejinder Singh and team from the Desert Research Institute. They wanted to know
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Gaston ate sixty eggs a day! How’s HIS cholesterol? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Who knows? How bad is egg cholesterol, really? Sharayah Carter and team from the University of South Australia investigated. Forty-eight adults tried different diets for five weeks each. One
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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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An elephant never forgets… but here’s my card, just in case. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Elephants are one of the most social animal species on earth! They even have names for each other! Who? Michael Pardo and team from Colorado State University recorded
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What if the Big Bang was a… big bite?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Hypothesis: Four billion years ago, a proto-planet, Theia, collided with Earth to form the moon. How do we know that? Enter Qian Yuan and team from Arizona State University. They
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