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[ad_1] A research team in Montreal has been busy developing a personalized cancer vaccine that works in mice. At the Research Center of the University of Montreal Hospital (CRCHUM), Marie-Claude Bourgeois-Daigneault and a team of scientists modify viruses to make them specific to tumor cells. Once in the patient’s body, these viruses, called oncolytic viruses,…
[ad_1] Jones Shipyard Hope floats. Swans nests don’t, unless they get a little help from someone determined to make sure their precious cargo has a chance to hatch. Rob Adamson, who lives and works at the Jones Boatyard in St Ives, England, has long been a bystander to the efforts of the world’s “most unfortunate…
[ad_1] Arthur Krijgsman Reprinted with permission from World in general, a news website on nature, politics, science, health and travel. Winner of Europe’s Leading Island Destination award for five consecutive years, the Portuguese island of Madeira seeks to capitalize on the increase in the number of a unique type of traveler, digital nomads, by building…
[ad_1] Finch A nifty new Chrome extension uses machine learning to rank products on Amazon by their eco-aspects, enabling consumers to make sustainable decisions about paper mill runoff or deforestation without having to do research on their breaks to lunch. Called Finch, its ranking can be applied to the top 41 product categories on Amazon,…
[ad_1] The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has just ended what has been described as a 52-year monopoly on the cultivation of cannabis for research purposes. Several large-scale cannabis growers have been awarded contracts to produce marijuana for federal research, a move that will hopefully go a long way toward demonstrating what many state and foreign…
I don’t know about y’all, but I’m tryin’ to be like miss Martha Stewart this summer: Wealthy, unbothered, and beautiful. Sadly, the first two probably won’t ever happen (I’m a journalist and a Virgo… oof). I can, however, do number three, especially if I just copy the homemaking mogul’s latest hairstyle. On May 20, Stewart…
We’ll make it snappy: Sunscreen shouldn’t leave your skin red, inflamed, or itchy. If it does, toss out your current SPF and investigate some of the best mineral sunscreens on the market, which you’ll soon read about. We know sunscreen is essential for a myriad of reasons — one of which is to avoid (painful!)…
I got the shade Nova from the brand a few weeks ago and initially wrote it off because I normally look washed out by warmer gold shades like this one. But curiosity killed the cat when I smeared a dollop onto my hand and I realized that Liquid Light’s texture and finish were exactly what…
Here’s the lowdown on how to subscribe to Allure’s print edition for more beauty routines, recommendations, and features. Hyaluronic acid. Although somewhat difficult to say (and even harder to spell), the skin-care ingredient commonly found in your favorite serums, sheet masks, and moisturizers, is an important addition to your daily skin-care regimen. That’s because HA, a molecule…
[ad_1] Spiders get a bad rap that is undeserved and often results in them being squashed. A comic book contest sought to address that If ever a creature needed a public relations review, it is the spider. Up to the task, author Jane McGee organized a comic contest to encourage children to create stories that…