Independent tests find that a number of products on the market use oxidised oils, with the rancidity often masked by flavouringsMore than one in 10 fish oil supplements tested from among 60 large retail brands are rancid, while nearly half are just und…
Row, row, row your phone, gently, ’till it’s charged
Against a backdrop of a pandemic that has shredded supply chains and gym memberships alike, it was mildly surreal to see professional-grade gym machine company SportsArt launch a rowing machine that can pump energy back into the grid. Like a wind turbine or a solar panel, except powered by pecs, deltoids and trapeziuses. The rower […]
東大教授、ネコの腎臓病薬の開発に専念へ 寄付盛り上がり退職を決意：朝日新聞デジタル
ネコの腎臓病を治す薬を研究している東京大の宮崎徹教授（免疫学）が、3月末で東大を辞め、薬の開発に専念することがわかった。年内にも実際にネコに薬を与える治験を始め、早ければ2023年の承認申請を目指すという。 東大を辞める意向は、研究室のウェブサイトで11日に公表した。非営利の一般社団法人「AIM医学研究所」…
NSW and Queensland allow close contacts of Covid cases to work as states face food shortages
‘Critical’ or ‘essential’ workers who are asymptomatic no longer required to self-isolate if job is essential for growing, manufacturing or transporting foodGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingClose contacts of people with Covid-19 wil…
Covid live: ‘concerning’ rates of Omicron in northern England; two linked to Australian Open leave country
Latest developments as Philippines reports record 26,458 cases and scientist says Omicron variant could become endemic in UKRequiring PCR tests for isolation funds in UK may fail legal test’See all our coronavirus coverageThe north-east and north-west …
Abbott tells CES it’s getting into consumer biowearables
US medical device maker, Abbott, is moving into making general purpose consumer biosensing wearables. The company has been making continuous glucose monitor (CGM) hardware for diabetes management for years (since 2014) — but in a healthtech keynote at CES yesterday, Abbott’s chairman and CEO, Robert B Ford, announced it’s developing a new line of consumer […]
How sweet is your blood? Scanbo gives an answer without poking holes in you
If you have diabetes, or ever suspected that you might, you will have done the poke-your-finger-and-drop-blood-on-a-stick thing until your finger goes numb. Finger-prick blood glucose monitoring is the de facto standard, but AI company Scanbo wants to put an end to all that, replacing the droplet with some off-the-shelf diagnostic tools and a big helping […]
新型コロナウイルスは、繰り返し発生する「エンデミック」になる。そのとき人類は、どう立ち向かうべきなのか？
新型コロナウイルスの新たな変異株である「オミクロン株」が急速に全世界に広がるなか、新型コロナウイルスが特定の地域で継続的に発生するエンデミック（風土病）の状態になる可能性が指摘されている。そもそも、何をもって「エンデミック」の状態と呼ぶのか？ そしてエンデミックの状態になったとき、人類はいかにウイルスと闘い、共存していくことになるのか。
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Four weeks as an Ultrahuman ‘Cyborg’
For four weeks during 2021, this TechCrunch reporter took the plunge and tested a “metabolic fitness” service from Bangalore-based startup Ultrahuman. The tracker program, branded Cyborg, uses arm-mounted medical grade hardware to get a real-time read-out of your blood glucose — using that dynamic data-point to power a quantified health service that scores what you […]
Mosqitter’s machine murders mosquitos with much mirth
After ridiculing one mosquito-fighting product, I figured it’d be only right to highlight another piece of buzz-reducing tech that was showing off its products at CES this year. Mosqitter is an industrial-scale mosquito murdering machine that attracts female mosquitos before they get a chance to lay eggs. From there, it’s a short zap away from […]