Batala’s Ramandeep Kaur, a simple housewife, is a success story all by herself. A decade ago when her hearing-impaired daughter was denied admission by private schools in the city, she vowed to learn the sign language.
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The winning team from the Tiffin Girls School
A TEAM of school students who developed a biodegradable face mask made from potato starch have won an inaugural sustainability competition launched in memory of chemical engineer John Davidson.
The winning team is called AdMeliora and includes Year 12 students Mehakdeep Kaur, Maya Rawat, Vivien Ablay, Niketa Walichchoru Evayage, and Akshita Sudhir from the Tiffin Girls School in Kingston upon Thames, UK. They developed the mask to combat the issue of increasing waste from disposable face masks used during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The University of Cambridge’s Davidson Inventors Challenge encourages 14- to 17-year-old UK students to use engineering problem-solving skills to develop an innovative solution that addresses one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
When Not What Obese Mice Ate Reduced Breast Cancer Risk
Restricting eating to an eight-hour window, when activity is highest, decreased the risk of development, growth and metastasis of breast cancer in mouse models, report researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Moores Cancer Center and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System (VASDSH).
The findings, published in the January 25, 2021 edition of Nature Communications, show that time-restricted feeding a form of intermittent fasting aligned with circadian rhythms improved metabolic health and tumor circadian rhythms in mice with obesity-driven postmenopausal breast cancer.
“Previous research has shown that obesity increases the risk of a variety of cancers by negatively affecting how the body reacts to insulin levels and changing circadian rhythms,” said senior author Nicholas Webster, PhD, professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine and senior research career scientist at VASDSH. “