LET’S BE PERFECTLY clear from the start: Exercise is one of the best ways to boost your mental health. Countless studies have proved this beyond any reasonable doubt. Case closed. However, a recent study revealed that, for some people, there can be too much of a good thing. Researchers from Yale University looked at data sourced from 1.2 million people in the U.S. to try to find out how much and which types of exercise are best for mental health. In the process, they found something a bit surprising. The study,…
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A fully human system to cultivate skin cells for grafting
Breakthrough research to culture human skin cells called keratinocytes to produce skin grafts has been published by a team of researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). This method is the first to use a specific type of tissue-proteins known as laminins, found in the human body, to create a safer treatment for severe burns or other skin-related defects. For over four decades, skin keratinocytes have been cultivated using a combined human-animal culture system. From a clinical application standpoint, this approach exposes patients to the potential…
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The One Workout Arielle Charnas of Something Navy Swears By
We can all agree that Arielle Charnas is #goals. For those who are (somehow) unfamiliar, Charnas is the ultimate when it comes to NYC street style, Instagram, and modern mom realness. Since launching her blog Something Navy back in 2009, Charnas has curated a following of over a million and has turned her Instagram handle into a full-fledged brand of its own. After her blog caught the attention of fashion’s elite, Charnas launched her own apparel collection; now, Something Navy is sold exclusively at Nordstrom, where her new swimwear collection just launched. The mom…
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New research explains how the shapes of neurons can be classified using mathematical methods from the field of algebraic topology. Neuroscientists can now start building a formal catalogue for all the types of cells in the brain. Onto this catalogue of cells, they can systematically map the function and role in disease of each type of neuron in the brain. “For nearly 100 years, scientists have been trying to name cells. They have been describing them in the same way that Darwin described animals and trees. Now the Blue Brain…
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