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Summer is hot. Even getting up from the couch can cause beads of sweat to form on the skin. Your clothes are sticking to your back, you’ve consumed enough water to fill a pool and the last thing you want to do is stand over a stove, heat your oven or work over a flaming-hot grill. When that moment comes—and it will—you’ll need a collection of kitchen gadgets to make healthy meal prep easy, sans stove or oven. Think of things that chop, slice, dice, peel, spin and prep ingredients for filling summer salads, balanced bowls and more with zero…

Palm fruits are known as the source of palm oil – an edible vegetable oil used for making products ranging from packaged food to personal care items like shampoo. Inside palm fruits are also functional ingredients such as plant squalene and tocotrienols / tocopherol, which are forms of vitamin E. Some companies, such as iHerb and Market America, are starting to use these palm phytonutrients into their products for aging support, according to palm phynutrients supplier PhytoGaia. Multi-level marketing company Market America, for instance, is selling Choice NADPLUS Mango Jelly with D-Ribose, Palm Tocotrienol Rich Fraction (STGaia) and Nicotinamide under…

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 01 October 2025 An approach that identifies, and predicts compatibility between, chemical and enzyme-sequence spaces can streamline and reduce risk in the discovery of enzymes that can catalyse a desired reaction. The strategy uses high-throughput experiments to generate data about enzyme-mediated reactions, and there is a tool that can predict compatible substrate–enzyme pairs.

Today, dsm-firmenich has opened its Van Marken Food Innovation Center in Delft, the Netherlands. The new center will house the headquarters of the company’s more than €3 billion (US$3.53 billion) Taste, Texture & Health business unit. It is designed to help its customers develop more delicious, nutritious, and sustainable F&B solutions. The company says its innovation center will play a “strategic role in the global diet transformation.” It features advanced cheese, bakery, and brewery facilities. The center includes technologies to enhance nutrition and taste and develop sugar substitutes, lactose-free products, and sustainable plant-based alternatives to fish, meat, and dairy. “The future of…

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical research, in their release of the “human REPAIRome.” The CNIO team, led by Felipe Cortés-Ledesma, PhD, head of the CNIO’s DNA Topology and DNA Breaks group, has identified and catalogued 20,000 types of scars that remain in repaired human DNA after a double-stranded break (DSB). They’ve called the resource the human REPAIRome—and have made the data available to the global scientific community through the human…

Psilocybin reversed chronic pain and psychiatric symptoms in mice.Image credit:©istock.com, microgenPeople who live with chronic pain also often experience psychiatric disorders, like depression or anxiety, complicating the treatment of both conditions. Although many of the same brain regions are suspected to be affected in pain and mood disorders, researchers have not been able to treat these simultaneously so far.1-3In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania showed that a single dose of psilocybin, a compound with psychoactive properties, improved symptoms of both chronic pain and depressive and anxiety-like behaviors in mice.4 The researchers explored two…

Magnesium is a key nutrient that benefits many parts of the body, from blood pressure to heart health to improving your sleep. The amount of magnesium that your body needs can vary, but these healthy snack recipes will give you a boost with 75 milligrams or more of magnesium per serving—that’s about 20% of the recommended daily amount for adults. Try our sweet and satisfying Strawberry-Almond Butter Energy Cups or our versatile and savory Sesame-Honey Roasted Cashews for a magnesium-rich bite that is as delicious as it is nutritious. Love any of these recipes? Join MyRecipes to save, search and…

Luke TaylorRio de JaneiroUS health agencies are preparing to furlough up to three quarters of their staff and health insurance premiums could rise for millions of Americans as lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on the national budget.Republican and Democratic representatives were unable to come to an agreement on federal health insurance subsidies or to draw up a temporary funding plan by the midnight deadline on 1 October, triggering a federal government shutdown. This means all non-essential government services will be stopped and 750 000 federal employees could be furloughed, the Congressional Budget Office estimates.1According to the fiscal 2026 contingency plan…

Credit: Meletios Verras/iStock/Getty Images Plus A new approach to CAR T cell therapy, involving engineering the cells to produce fusion proteins combining a cytokine and an antibody, has shown improved efficacy and safety in animal models of prostate and ovarian cancer. Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, results of the study show early promise to enhance the performance of this therapeutic modality in solid tumors, which make up about 90% of cancer diagnoses.  “We believe this new strategy will provide a productive boost to current CAR T cell therapies and can be applicable to multiple cancer types,” said John P. Murad,…

Princess Diana’s favorite salmon recipe features a macadamia, lime and cilantro crust.Chef Darren McGrady shared the full step-by-step recipe in a recent YouTube video.The dish is served with spicy mayo and sauteed onions and peppers. Salmon is a delicious source of protein, omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins like B12 and D, but like any protein food, it can be easy to feel like you’ve run out of interesting ways to cook it. Luckily, Princess Diana’s former chef, Darren McGrady, is taking to social media to share the royal’s favorite way to nosh on a salmon fillet—and it may be just…