National Taiwan University - Soybeans Combat Marijuana-Induced Cardiovascular Disease

Title:

Soybeans Combat Marijuana-Induced Cardiovascular Disease

 

Published:

National Taiwan University, June 2022

https://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~ntunewsletter/enews/90/07.html

Abstract:

A team of researchers from NTU, NTU Hospital, Academia Sinica, Stanford University, University of California, and University of Colorado discovered a compound in soybeans called genistein that helps block damage caused by THC in marijuana to the lining of blood vessels in the cardiovascular system.  

 

SOUTH AFRICA - New fossil tracks belonging to human ancestors found in South Africa

Title:

New fossil tracks belonging to human ancestors found in South Africa

 

Author:

Charles helm, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University

 

Published:

The Conversation, 22 October 2020

https://theconversation.com/new-fossil-tracks-belonging-to-human-ancestors-found-in-south-africa-148187

 

From the article:

* Around a hundred thousand years ago, South Africa’s Cape south coast was a busy place. Giraffes, crocodiles, hatchling sea turtles and large bird species populated the landscape. Early humans were there, too.  

 

We know all of this because of fossil tracksites that today dot the Cape south coast, which is about 400km east of Cape Town. These sites date to between 400,000 years and 35,000 years ago, to a geological epoch known as the Pleistocene. 

* Now we’ve found three further hominin tracksites – and possibly a fourth. The sites are described in a recently published article in the South African Journal of Science.