Today, as many as two thirds of food consumers in the UK may regularly buy one or more organic products. Popularity and demand of organic food has been increasing since the 1970s as people became more and more conscious of their own health and the health of their environment.
As COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to grip the world, we are increasingly finding out more about how the virus works. Animals are often brought up due to pet owners worried about their pets, farmers worried about their livestock, and people generally worried about transmission from an animal. Preliminary information about COVID-19’s
Introduction We tend to think of spices as powders that enhance our food; they have distinct aromas and can taste tangy, sweet or fruity. However, spices play a greater role in our health and society than we may think. Historically, spices were regarded as valuable items with versatile functions; they
18 years ago, the world was introduced to a new type of threat – an international coronavirus outbreak. The first wave of its kind in the 21st century, Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) quickly swept through many countries, causing international panic and threatening many of Asia’s economies. Affecting over 8000
Miscarriages, stillbirths, and neonatal losses are unexpected and unfortunate events that can occur during a parent’s life. While these terms may seem synonymous to each other, there are small differences that characterize each event. Miscarriage is the loss of a fetus before 20 weeks of pregnancy, while stillbirth is the
What would you do if you just returned from deep space only to find the world in the next century? Many dystopian science fiction narratives use the traveler-out-of-time scenario where a person from one time period moves through time into another era through some sort of scientific or magical plot
It’s nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and if you don’t feel confused – well, you haven’t been paying attention. For the better part of a year now, our world has been trying its best to understand the
Figure 1. SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins inhibit the type I interferon (IFN) signaling pathway. Interferons are responsible for interfering with viral replication and inducing an antiviral state, or immune response, within the host. During viral infection, specific transcription factors, such as NF-kB, stimulate interferons to initiate an immune response. A transcription
In the United States, over 500,000 lives were claimed by opioid overdose between 1999 to 2018. To this day, the opioid crisis continues to cause grief for many communities across North America. Although there is a growing awareness about the epidemic, the damage of the opioid crisis is prolonged by
I was scrolling through Twitter and came across a tweet, where a Black woman mentioned that her mother had COVID-19. When they checked with a doctor, they informed her mother to go to the ER if her lips turned blue. However, even if her lips were to turn blue, it
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