Health & Wellness
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Hoping to revive woolly mammoths, scientists start with ‘woo…
[ad_1] A woolly mouse, a breed created by scientists using genetic engineering. The development is a first step toward reviving a version of the extinct woolly mammoth. Colossal Biosciences hide caption toggle caption Colossal Biosciences Scientists have genetically engineered mice with some key characteristics of an extinct animal that was far larger — the woolly…
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The Job Market Is Frozen
[ad_1] Six months. Five-hundred-seventy-six applications. Twenty-nine responses. Four interviews. And still, no job. When my younger brother rattled off these numbers to me in the fall of 2023, I was dismissive. He had recently graduated with honors from one of the top private universities in the country into a historically strong labor market. I assured…
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Taking even a short break from your smartphone can boost you…
[ad_1] People who block the internet from their smartphones spend more time on other activities that improve their wellbeing. Rob Dobi/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rob Dobi/Getty Images If you order up coffee on a mobile app while scrolling your social feeds, or can’t stop watching videos and reading news articles on your phone…
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How Aging Cells Help or Hinder Healing
[ad_1] Have you ever noticed that a small cut or scrape seems to take longer to heal as you get older? This common experience is linked to changes happening at the cellular level, specifically with cells called senescent cells. These cells have stopped dividing, essentially “retiring,” but they don’t simply disappear. For a long time,…
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NIH announces new funding policy that rattles medical resear…
[ad_1] A laboratory studying sickle cell disease at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Laboratory, at the National Institutes of Health on Feb. 8, 2024, in Bethesda, Md. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The National Institutes of Health is capping an…
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Trump and Musk Bring Vast Aid Machinery to a Halt in Africa
[ad_1] For decades, sub-Saharan Africa was a singular focus of American foreign aid. The continent received over $8 billion a year, money that was used to feed starving children, supply lifesaving drugs and provide wartime humanitarian assistance. In a few short weeks, President Trump and the South African-born billionaire Elon Musk have burned much of…
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Olive Oil vs. Vegetable Oil vs. Butter
[ad_1] Are vegetable and seed oils “toxic”?! From TikTok to bestseller lists, vegetable oils—a.k.a. “seed oils”—are a big topic right now. To be fair, folks have debated the merits of vegetable oils dating back to when they first entered the marketplace. More recently, however, with the advent of the carnivore diet, vegetable oil hate has…
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How Maternal Medications Alter Breastmilk Nutrients
[ad_1] More than 70% of breastfeeding moms in the U.S. take at least one prescription medication. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that certain antidepressants and long-term anti-inflammatory drugs lowered breastmilk protein levels by up to 21%, while also decreasing fat by as much as 22%. This…
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The Price America Will Pay for Trump’s Tariffs
[ad_1] To understand the harm Donald Trump has done with his tariffs on Canada and Mexico, here are four things you need to know: First, every tax on imports is also a tax on exports. The most popular beer in America is Modelo Especial, brewed in Mexico. Impose a 25 percent tariff on Modelo and…
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RFK Jr. to keep collecting fees from lawsuits against Merck …
[ad_1] RFK Jr. made $856,559 in referral fees from the law firm Wisner Baum, which is suing Merck over claims its HPV vaccine caused cervical cancer, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics. Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bloomberg/Getty Images Even if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as the next…