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From Detection to Protection: How Raman Spectroscopy Is Changing the Game

You can’t clean up what you can’t detect, whether it’s dealing with the aftermath of a chemical spill or checking food for adulteration. Find out how spatially offset Raman spectroscopy is a game-changer in non-invasive chemical characterization.

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Adopting Best Diet–Gut Microbiome Research Practices to Advance Health

Identifying and adopting best practices in diet–microbiome research studies would help scientists studying the gut find answers as to how microbes improve health. A recent study reviewed current research to this end.

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Coconut Oil and Your Health: The Good and the Bad

A majority of Americans believe coconut oil is healthy. The thing is, according to many cardiovascular researchers, it isn’t.

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Westerners Still Don’t Want To Eat Insects – But Their Pets Don’t Mind

The pet food and agricultural sectors appear to find insect protein more palatable than restaurant diners do.

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A Holistic Approach To Investigate Climate Change and Marine Neurobiology

A new, state-of-the-art research center at the Scripps Institute for Oceanography, University of California San Diego, will offer a unique window into how climate change is impacting the nervous systems of marine life.

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Behind the Scenes: The Hunt for the Oldest DNA

Technology Networks spoke with the team behind a new documentary, “Hunt for the Oldest DNA” on the evolution and future of ancient DNA analysis.

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How To Test for PFAS: A Q&A With NIST’s Jessica Reiner

Technology Networks spoke to Dr. Reiner to find out the considerations analysts should have when testing forever chemicals, how to prepare a sample and what the future holds for this burgeoning field of chemistry.

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Fake Honey Is Everywhere, and These Tests Can Prove It

Two new techniques pioneered by researchers at Cranfield University could help name and shame the fake honey on supermarket shelves.

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“Compelling” Evidence Suggests PFAS Impact Epigenetic Regulation

In an interview with Technology Networks, Dr. Jackie Goodrich summarizes PFAS and explains how chemical exposure could harm epigenetic regulation.

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Flavonoid-Rich Foods Like Berries and Tea May Cut Dementia Risk

People who consume a regular amount of flavonoid-rich food like berries, tea and red wine tend to have a lower risk of dementia, according to a new study.

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“Bioactive Glass” Bone Cancer Therapy Kills 99% of Osteosarcoma Cells

In laboratory tests, bioactive glasses doped with gallium oxide killed more than 99% of osteosarcoma cells, while leaving healthy human osteoblasts unharmed. This could one day form the basis of new bone cancer treatments, researchers say.

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Cultured Fish Could Be the Answer to Overfishing, if Seafood Lovers Can Get Hooked on It

Start-ups around the world are now making seafood without the sea. Technology Networks spoke to some of them to learn how, why and where might first start selling bioreactor-brewed fish fingers.

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