Intended to help human, planetary health, EAT-Lancet diet too costly for 1.6 billion people

A new study estimates that the Eat-Lancet Commission reference diet -- meant to improve both human and planetary health -- would be unaffordable for at least 1.58 billion people, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The study is published...
6-Nov-2019 1:20 PM EST Add to Favorites

Researchers engineer insulin-producing cells activated by light for diabetes

Researchers have transplanted engineered pancreatic beta cells into diabetic mice, then caused the cells to produce more than two to three times the typical level of insulin by exposing them to light. The light-switchable cells are designed to...
1-Nov-2019 4:15 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Scientists enhance color and texture of cultured meat

A team of Tufts University-led researchers exploring the development of cultured meat found that the addition of the iron-carrying protein myoglobin improves the growth, texture and color of bovine muscle grown from cells in culture. This...
22-Oct-2019 4:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Health-care pioneer Harris Berman to retire as dean of Tufts University School of Medicine

Tufts University School of Medicine Dean Harris Berman will step down from his post at the end of the year. The managed-care pioneer and former chief executive of Tufts Health Plan will continue at the university on a part-time basis, fundraising...
16-Oct-2019 3:15 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Secrets to Climate Change Adaptation Uncovered in the European Corn Borer Moth

Biologists looked at the European corn borer moth and pinpointed variation in two circadian clock genes – per and Pdfr – that enable different populations of the moth to adapt their seasonal transitions to climate change
10-Oct-2019 7:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Study: Losing weight—and keeping it off—linked to cardiometabolic benefits

7-Oct-2019 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Voltage gated calcium channels ‘read’ electric patterns in embryos to create cartilage and bone

Scientists have revealed how the electrical patterns formed within an embryo initiate a cascade of molecular changes that culminate in the development of cartilage and bone. The study demonstrates that voltage gated calcium channels ‘read’ the...
4-Oct-2019 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

New silk materials can wrinkle into detailed patterns, then unwrinkle to be “reprinted”

Engineers developed silk materials that can wrinkle into nanotextured patterns – including words, textures and images as intricate as a QR code or a fingerprint. The patterns are stable, but can be erased by flooding the surface of the silk with...
4-Oct-2019 7:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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