Kessler Foundation awarded six grants by New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research

IMAGE: This image was captured using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a technique that shows fiber tracking within the white matter tracts in the brain. DTI measures white matter deficits, which is… view more  Credit: Kessler Foundation EAST HANOVER, N.J. June 4, 2019 – Kessler scientists received six grants from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury…

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Snout dated: Slow-evolving elephant shark offers new insights into human physiology

The mineralocortoid receptor (MR) regulates water and sodium transport throughout cells and tissues, which is critical for controlling blood pressure and so, not surprisingly, the MR is common to all vertebrate animals. Aldosterone, which is a physiological steroid for land vertebrate MRs, evolved in lungfish (forerunners of land vertebrates), suggesting that the evolution of aldosterone…

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Mount Sinai scientist awarded $8 million for research on environmental factors on health

(New York, NY – June 4, 2019) — A theory that proposes the existence of a dynamic interface between the environment and human physiology over someone’s lifetime has earned a leading Mount Sinai researcher the prestigious Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Manish Arora, PhD, will receive a total…

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New to Natural Wine? Pick Up a Zine

Natural wine, by most accounts, has roots in the 1980s, when experimental winemakers in France’s Beaujolais region, like Marcel Lapierre, were inspired by the work of Jules Chauvet, a chemist who studied low intervention viticulture. Made from organically or biodynamically farmed grapes, with little to no intervention during production, these beverages defy conventional winery practices,…

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