Yale Study May Lead To Better Mosquito Repellents

Send to KindleTweet A new study is helping scientists develop new ways to fight malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. Researchers found that most malaria-transmitting mosquitoes have scent receptors that detect compounds in human sweat. John Carlson, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale and senior author of the study said “The world desperately [...]

Starbucks Speaks To HIV, Recycling Issues

Send to KindleTweet Starbucks, home of the dark roast and the key to regularity, most of all, The Third Place, has issued limited-run cups with red heart designs in time for Hallmark‘s favorite day of the year, but this design means more. The run of heart-emblazoned cups is an ode to the (RED) campaign, whose [...]

Retail & Celebrity Charity News Week of November 3

Send to KindleTweet General Mills Starts Healthy Hispanic Initiative General Mills has launched a three-year, grassroots program with the Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition and the Latino Nutrition Coalition encouraging Hispanic families to share healthy and nutritious meals. Mente Sana en Cuerpo Sano (Sound Body, Sound Mind) involves the use of a 10-session curriculum [...]

Makeup 2.0 Superfruit-Infused Beauty

Send to KindleTweet The latest innovations in the makeup world involve a back-to-basics approach, where renowned cosmetics companies pine nature for powerful plants and fruits, some with natural pigments. Among those companies are Tarte, Aveda and Liz Earle. What all these products have in a common is the ability to do what makeup originally intended—enhance [...]

Science, Health & Recalls August 4

Send to KindleTweet An American woman paid $50,000 for five puppies that were cloned from her dead pitbull by South Korean company RNL Bio, the Associated Press reports. The company cloned the dog with researchers at Seoul National University where scientists created the first cloned dog in 2005. The company hopes to clone roughly 300 [...]

Science, Health & Recalls May 26

Send to KindleTweet Researchers at Cancer Research UK‘s London Research Institute said scientists have been looking for proteins or “tags” on dendritic cells for more than 30 years and have made a discovery that may identify a protein on immune cells that will be able to stimulate the body’s attack on a tumor, BBC reports. [...]