 | | The End of a Pest? | | BBC—Some scientists from Oxford University and the biotech firm Oxitec think so. They've changed the genes of a male mosquito species so its offspring will die before they can reproduce. They've set about 3 million such bugs loose in the Cayman Islands, and report a 96 percent drop in mosquitos. | | Read More → | | |  | | Not Nodding Off | | Newsweek—The report relies on experiments conducted at Montreal's McGill University. Scientists used lights to prevent mice from getting REM sleep. The mice later had problems remembering new places or things. They also seemed to struggle to process emotions. | | Read More → | | | | | |  | | Stroke Prevention, Ischemic vs Hemorrhagic Stroke, How Strokes Are Treated | | Berkeley Wellness—Many of us worry that we are vulnerable to a heart attack, but hardly think about stroke, which is like a heart attack except that it occurs in the brain. Yet stroke is a leading cause of disability in the U.S, and the fifth largest killer. | | Read More → | | |  | | Amounts of Food Dyes in Kids' Foods, How to Find Foods Without Artificial Food Colors | | Berkeley Wellness—Artificial food colors (AFCs) are commonly found in beverages, cereals, puddings, ice creams, popsicles, cakes, candies, pasta mixes, and other foods marketed to children (as well as in plenty of "adult" foods). And there may be more of them in certain foods these days than ever before, according to a study in Clinical Pediatrics, which analyzed a large number of products with AFCs listed on their labels. | | Read More → | | | | | | | | |
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