Nearly three-quarters of supermarket chickens are contaminated with a potentially deadly bug, making it the biggest food safety concern in the UK, the Food Standards Agency has said. The FSA tests found Asda had the highest rate of contamination in its fresh whole chickens at 80{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d}, followed by Co-op with 78{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d}, Morrisons with 76{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d}, Waitrose with 74{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d}, and Tesco and Marks and Spencer with 67{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d}.
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Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia: JAK2 inhibitor ruxolitinib has promising efficacy
Scientists are reporting on the first phase 1 study of the JAK2 inhibitor ruxolitinib in CMML patients.
Component in green tea may help reduce prostate cancer in men at high risk
Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer in men and is predicted to result in an estimated 220,000 cases in the United States in 2015. A team of researchers recently published results of a randomized trial that assessed the safety and effectiveness of the active components in green tea to prevent prostate cancer development in men who have premalignant lesions.
What’s Up With Our Poop the Day After We Booze?
If you wake up after a night of boozing and make a beeline for the bathroom, you’re not alone. First off, you’ve got to pee—alcohol is a diuretic, which makes you produce more urine. But there’s often a need to lighten the load too, and it can be on the runny side. We have the ethanol in alcohol to thank for the day-after-drinking stool (DADS), a phenomenon that’s also know by a far more vulgar term: the beer sh*ts. Ethanol revs up the digestive process, which is why you have the urge to go right when you wake. Speeding up digestion also means that there’s less time for the colon to absorb H2O, which can lead to watery stool, says Anish Sheth, M.D
MEDI4736 combined with tremelimumab results in acceptable toxicity in NSCLC patients
Advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients have few effective treatment options and low 5-year survival rates. The checkpoint inhibitors MEDI4736 and tremelimumab have both demonstrated acceptable safety and potential efficacy when used as single-agents in several different types of cancer.
Implicit social biases made to drop away during sleep
Can we learn to rid ourselves of our implicit biases regarding race and gender? A new study indicates that sleep may hold an important key to success in such efforts. Building on prior research, investigators aimed to find out whether learning to alter habitual reactions to other people could be enhanced during sleep.
Wild chimps teach scientists about gene that encodes HIV-fighting protein
Different people can vary substantially in their genetic susceptibility to viruses, including HIV. Although the biology that underlies this variation in humans is still being uncovered, it seems that we may be able to learn some key lessons from our closest cousins.
New findings shed light on complexities of emerging zoonotic malaria
Zoonotic malaria has been shown to be caused by two genetically distinct Plasmodium knowlesi parasite subpopulations associated with different monkey host species in Malaysia, according to new research. The authors believe this could have important implications for how the parasite adapts and spreads in humans.
HIV’s sweet tooth is its downfall
HIV has a powerful sweet tooth. After the virus invades an immune cell, it craves sugar and nutrients from the cell to replicate and grow. Scientists discovered the switch that flips on the cell’s sugar pipeline. Then they blocked the switch with an experimental compound, shutting down the pipeline and starving HIV to death. The virus was unable to replicate in human cells. Similar new compounds could be part of drug ‘cocktails’ to treat HIV, they say.
Scientists retrieve lost memories using optogenetics
Researchers have found that memories that have been ‘lost’ as a result of amnesia can be recalled by activating brain cells with light. They reactivated memories that could not otherwise be retrieved, using a technology known as optogenetics.
Regenerating lost taste buds: Key steps discovered
Researchers have discovered a key molecular pathway that aids in the renewal of taste buds, a finding that may help cancer patients suffering from an altered sense of taste during treatment.