Fasting diets could harm future generations, study suggests
Fasting diets could harm future generations, study suggests (Yui Mok/PA)
Fasting diets could have an impact the health of future generations, new research suggests.
While the diets have risen in popularity in recent years, little is known about the long-term effects.
New research found that reduced food intake in roundworms (Caenorhabditis elegans) has a detrimental effect on three generations of offspring – particularly when those descendants have access to unlimited food.
Lead researcher Dr Edward Ivimey-Cook, from the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) School of Biological Sciences, said: “We know that reduced food intake increases the lifespan in many animals and can potentially improve health in humans.
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But at the same time, UK industry is responsible for a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change that threatens this way of life.
In a world that must move beyond fossil fuels we face critical questions:
how do we make the substances that we need to clean?
how do we make clothes?
how do we package our fruit and vegetables?
Dr Colin Miles, Head of Renewable Resources and Clean Growth, Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), says: If we want to build an economy that truly sustains our civilisation now, and in the future, we must find ways to maintain production whilst cutting emissions to net zero, and biotech is key to that.
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A new approach to tackling viruses by targeting the control centre in viral RNA could lead to broad spectrum anti-viral drugs and provide a first line of defence against future pandemics, according to new research at the University of Birmingham.
In a new study, published in
Angewandte Chemie, researchers have shown how this approach could be effective against the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier modelling and
in vitro analysis by the team and published in
Chemical Science has also shown effectiveness against the HIV virus.
Professor Mike Hannon, from the University of Birmingham s School of Chemistry, is co-lead author of the study. He said: Although SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have been developed with unprecedented speed, there has still been a 12-month wait for development and approval. Viral pandemics remain a big threat and so broad-spectrum anti-virals are urgently needed to keep diseases like coronaviruses at bay while effective dru
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Dr Stefano Pagliara, Professor Krasi Tsaneva-Atanasova and Dr Ula Łapińska
Three academics from the University of Exeter’s Living Systems Institute have received half a million pounds funding to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
Dr Stefano Pagliara, Professor Krasi Tsaneva-Atanasova and Dr Ula Łapińska will use the funding to determine how two genetically identical cells can accumulate substantially different amount of drugs.
The funding of just over £500,000 was awarded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) under its 2020 Responsive Mode scheme.
The team’s project, called HETEROTRANSPORT, will use cutting-edge technologies including microfluidics, microscopy and omics to determine the mechanisms that permit drugs to enter and kill bacteria.