Month: June 2021

Enlarge / On the outside, these heavily engineered bacteria look no different from their normal peers. Many of the fundamental features of life don't necessarily have to be the way they are. Chance plays a major role in evolution, and there are always alternate paths that were never explored, simply because whatever evolved previously happened to be good enough. One instance of this idea is the genetic code, which converts the information carried by our DNA into the specific sequence of amino acids that form proteins. There are scores of potential amino acids, many of which can form spontaneously, but most life uses a genetic code that relies on just 20 of them. Over the past couple of decades, scientists have shown that it doesn't have to be th...

A new study published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found the DASH diet was linked to a reduction in heart damage.  An acronym for "dietary approaches to stop hypertension," the DASH diet promotes eating foods such as fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy, whole grains, poultry and fish. According to the Mayo Clinic, the low-sodium associated with the diet leads to a "lifelong approach to healthy eating that's designed to help treat or prevent high blood pressure." READ MORE STORIES FROM CHANGING AMERICA IN AMAZING FIRST, PARALYZED MAN IS ABLE TO USE HIS BRAIN TO WRITE RESEARCHERS FINE TUNE A ‘BIONIC EYE’ FOR THOSE WHO LOST THEIR SIGHT RESEARCHERS MAKE SUTURES INSPIRED BY HUMAN TENDONS IN A BREAKTHROUGH RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY CANCER CELLS BY THEIR AC...

Milloni Doshi, a 25-year-old student from India who is supposed to start her master’s degree this fall at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, has a problem. Although Ms. Doshi has been vaccinated against the coronavirus, she received two doses of Covaxin, which is made by an Indian manufacturer and is not currently approved by the World Health Organization, as required by the university. Columbia has told her she will need to be revaccinated with a different vaccine once she arrives on campus, but no one can say for sure if it is safe to do so. “I am just concerned about taking two different vaccines,” she wrote via a messaging app. “They said the application process would be the toughest part of the cycle, but it’s really been all of this that has been unce...

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