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This dressing contains gut-friendly ingredients thanks to probiotic-rich strained (Greek-style) yogurt, lemon and honey.It’s quick to prepare and adds perfect flavor to salads, plus it can be used as a dip for veggies.Dressings containing fat help your body absorb vitamins and minerals from the vegetables more effectively. When I was growing up in Iowa, if I was eating salad, it was primarily as a vehicle for bottled dressing. Preferably ranch. I didn’t have a strong preference about what else was in said salad; as long as that creamy, herby dressing was invited to the party, I’d be there. However, now I…

Key takeaways According to Mintel, beauty products will evolve into diagnostic tools, reflecting inner health and merging with wellness tech.Emotional wellness will drive sensory-first product design, with immersive experiences becoming central to beauty routines.Consumers will favour authenticity over perfection, embracing flawed, expressive, and emotionally rich beauty narratives.The market intelligence firm Mintel has today unveiled its annual global beauty trends report, and according to the business, consumers in the coming years will expect serums and supplements to double as wellness diagnostics. Simultaneously, the beauty experience will evolve from delivering visible results to regulating mood and evoking emotion, while imperfection will become…

Nuovo Pasta Pumpkin & Bats Ravioli is back at Costco, featuring festive pumpkin and bat shapes.The rich filling blends mozzarella, Asiago, Parmesan and ricotta for a creamy, comforting flavor.Be sure to stock up each fall to enjoy the ravioli for Halloween and beyond. I’m an avid Costco shopper. I make the 40-minute round-trip visit at least twice a month for lots of things (it’s the best place to buy frozen fruit and cheese, in my opinion). But I also love surveying the aisles for great seasonal items. And one of my favorites is finally back in stock—Nuovo Pasta Pumpkin &…

Representing de Bruijn graphsAccording to the formal definition of a de Bruijn graph, every pair of k-mers (short contiguous subsequences of length k) with an overlap of k − 1 characters are connected with a directed edge. It can be seen that in the de Bruijn graph, the edges can always be derived from the nodes alone, and hence, it is sufficient to store only the k-mer set. These k-mers are used as elementary indexing tokens in MetaGraph.MetaGraph provides several data structures for storing k-mer sets, which are used as a basis to implement different representations of the de Bruijn graph abstraction.…

Amid disputes over pay and training places, the narrative of an exodus of UK doctors has taken hold—but do the data back this up? Elisabeth Mahase investigatesYears of industrial action1 and numerous surveys23 have shown widespread dissatisfaction among doctors in the UK, with concerns spanning pay, working conditions, and access to and quality of training.4The BMA has warned that this “toxic cocktail” is making emigration an attractive option to doctors, and a General Medical Council (GMC) survey over the summer suggested that a third of doctors were looking to leave the UK medical profession.5But while the number of UK doctors…

South Africa’s Montego Pet Nutrition is expanding into Europe with the introduction of its Karoo Wild and Bags o’ Wags treat ranges to the Netherlands — a market where discerning dog owners are increasingly seeking premium, natural, and nutrient-rich snacks.At a time when “pet parents” increasingly demand transparency, alternative proteins, and functional nutrition for their canine companions, Montego says its Karoo Wild stands out as a premium, innovative range.“Europe is home to some of the most passionate pet owners in the world, and we are delighted to bring Montego’s treats to families in the Netherlands,” says Johan van Jaarsveld, the…

For decades, scientists have relied on structure to understand protein function. Tools like AlphaFold have revolutionized how researchers predict and design folded proteins, allowing for new therapeutics and enzymes to be modeled in silico. But what happens when proteins don’t fold at all? Nearly 30% of the human proteome consists of shapeshifting, intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) that refuse to settle into a stable structure—and have remained beyond the reach of AI-based prediction tools. Now, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Northwestern University have developed a new way to bring order to…

My grandparents used to tell stories about the old days, when there was only one chain and everyone lived on it. How much better it all was, then. I don’t know if I believe the stories. How else did all the different languages start, all the religions? Where did cross-chain travel come from? But I like to remember their stories. Especially now.I was born on Stokeham, a legacy chain. Good uptime. Low latency. Stable. A bit boring, I guess. That’s what my sister always said. Vridia. She called Stokeham a Boomer Chain, using grandma-slang to show just how backwater we…

To accelerate the discovery of new antibiotics, microbiologist Cesar de la Fuente develops computational tools to look for (“encrypted”) antimicrobial peptides hiding in the genomes of a wide range of organisms.Image credit:©iStock, Ole_CNXIn the summer of 1928, Alexander Fleming, an English biologist, accidentally discovered that the mold Penicillium notatum inhibits bacterial growth. Fleming’s serendipitous finding brought penicillin—one of the first antibiotics—into the world.Now, nearly 100 years later, scientists still look to nature to find new antibiotics. They dig up soil and collect water, trying to purify active compounds from these highly complex samples. This process takes many years—often longer than…