A team of researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has developed what they describe as a fast and inexpensive way to test for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in human patients. The results are published in the journal Science Advances. When a…
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Is your spin class music way too loud?
Turning down the music at your fitness classes won’t affect the intensity of your workout, researchers say. It’s common for fitness instructors to crank up the volume—sometimes to levels loud enough to damage hearing—because they think it will help students…
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Buying your own health insurance just got way less expensive
Tens of millions of Americans will find it substantially more affordable to buy their own health insurance starting this month, thanks to generous financial help included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) signed by President Joe Biden in March….
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The Best Way To Get A Job After Being Laid Off During COVID
While the worst part of the pandemic was the lives that were tragically cut short, the second-worst part, the economic impact, is something that has yet to play out. All of the business closures, cutbacks, and loss of revenue due…
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This Mobility Coach Is Using Social Media to Change the Way You Move
Mike Wasilisin, D.C., couldn’t redefine mobility from his California chiropractic center, so he shut it down and started the fitness-content platform MoveU Inc. to help you (and 1 million-plus Instagram followers) Fix. Yo. Shit. Four years ago, after working with…
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How to Do Leg Raises the Right Way
The leg raise is a fantastic core exercise that every lifter should keep in their ab exercise library. Leg raises can be easily scaled and performed virtually anywhere with no equipment needed. Given it’s position, the move can be a…
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The Surprising Way Costco Really Makes Their Money
If you are the kind of person that cannot go more than a week without dropping by Costco for your weekly groceries, to check out what’s new, or even just to grab a hot dog meal, you are probably also…
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The Right Way to do a Jump Squat
The best athletes in the world need to be explosive, and in some regards, it makes sense that we model our training after them when we want to achieve the same thing. Given we have a good foundation, jumping training…
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Researchers pioneer more effective way to block malaria transmission in mosquitoes
Employing a strategy known as “population modification,” which involves using a CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive system to introduce genes preventing parasite transmission into mosquito chromosomes, University of California researchers have made a major advance in the use of genetic technologies to…
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One way to prevent cancer: Map the fundamentals of how cells go awry
Someday, scientists may be able to prevent cancer by controlling two proteins that operate deep inside the quagmire of epigenetic cell fate transitions, a new paper suggests. Published by Nature Communications, the article describes a dynamic push and pull between…
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