Seasonal Desserts That Surprise

The chapters in “Wild Sweetness,” a dessert cookbook by Thalia Ho, an award-winning food blogger who lives in Australia, unfold according to seasons, but without your typical peach pie in summer or pumpkin for fall. It’s a subtler, more elegant and personal collection, threaded throughout with chocolate. Several fancy confections are included, but most of…

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Rum Rebranded, From Martinique

Most white, unaged rums are made industrially, that is, from the molasses byproduct of sugar refining. But not Rhum Clément on the island of Martinique in the West Indies. All of its rums, including the whites, are labeled agricole, meaning agricultural, distilled from the fresh-pressed and fermented juice of sugar cane. The company has now…

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A Long Island Farm Adds Classes

Nick Voulgaris III, who grew up in Huntington, N.Y., remembers going as a child to Kerber’s Farm, a local farm and store that was founded in 1941. About 10 years ago, the owners planned to sell it to a developer. Mr. Voulgaris, who had become a restaurateur and caterer, bought it, renovated it and reopened…

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BioBonds Use Wall Street Tools to Fund Medical Research

In the development of disease treatments, the stage between basic research and advanced clinical trials is known as “the valley of death.” While ample public grants fund early-stage research and pharmaceutical companies are willing to fund studies on proven solutions, research at the “translational” stage, when basic findings are applied to potential treatments, is notoriously…

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Magnetic field from MRI affects focused-ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier

IMAGE: In a mouse model study of MRI-guided focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening at MRI field strengths ranging from ­approximately 0 T (outside the magnetic field) to 4.7 T, the… view more  Credit: Washington University in St. Louis MRI-guided focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles can open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and allow therapeutic drugs to…

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Gene therapy offers long-awaited hope for children with rare, incurable disorder

Children with a devastating genetic disorder characterized by severe motor disability and developmental delay have experienced sometimes dramatic improvements in a gene therapy trial launched at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. The trial includes seven children aged 4 to 9 born with deficiency of AADC, an enzyme involved in the synthesis of neurotransmitters, particularly dopamine, that…

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