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Why breakfast is not the most important meal of the day: Another myth bites the dust!

How many times have you heard "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day"? This view is so pervasive that to admit to not eating breakfast is almost tantamount to admitting to a non-healthy behaviour! I am a rheumatologist and many of my patients seek... click to read more

  • Flavia Cicuttini | Professor at School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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calories intake
obesity
breakfast eating
myths
Views 1372
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jul 29, 2019
A new strategy to beat Ebola virus at its own game

Ebola virus causes a deadly and highly contagious infection, known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. Repeated outbreaks of severe, often deadly epidemics since Ebola was first identified in the 1970s have killed thousands of people and scared the world. The West African Ebola epidemic in 2014... click to read more

  • Jyoti Batra | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, J. David Gladstone Institutes & Quantitative Biosciences Institute, QBI, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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  • Manon Eckhardt | Staff Research Scientist at Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, J. David Gladstone Institutes & Quantitative Biosciences Institute, QBI, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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  • Nevan J. Krogan | Professor at Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, J. David Gladstone Institutes & Quantitative Biosciences Institute, QBI, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Ebola virus
antiviral factor
host-pathogen interactions
virus infection
RNA viruses
Views 1602
Reading time 4 min
published on Jul 17, 2019
Genetic determinants of thinness and obesity: cards of the same deck

Obesity is a major public health concern worldwide, with high prevalence paralleling an increasingly "obesogenic" environment that promotes a sedentary lifestyle and poor-quality food choices. However, even within this environment, some people are able to maintain a healthy body mass index (BMI, defined as weight... click to read more

  • Fernando Riveros-Mckay | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  • Inês Barroso | Director of Research at MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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genetics
obesity
thinness
Views 1375
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jul 12, 2019
A cup of green tea can solve many problems!

Green tea, like many other teas, is brewed from the dried leaves of the Cammelia sinensis bush. It originates from China, but nowadays it is grown and produced all over the world. Green tea is typically green, yellow or light brown in color, and its... click to read more

  • Monika Stankova | PhD student at Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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prevention
green tea
colorectal cancer
clinical study
Views 1084
Reading time 3 min
published on Jul 3, 2019
What can science tell us about mortality and survival in Game of Thrones?

Does it all come down to a roll of the dice, or are there important underlying factors that determine who wins and who dies when they play the game of thrones? Game of Thrones is a popular HBO television series that has captured the imagination of... click to read more

  • Reidar P. Lystad | Research Fellow at Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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  • Benjamin T. Brown | Sessional Academic at Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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mortality
survival analysis
violence
prevention
Views 1364
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jul 1, 2019