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Plastic baby bottles shed millions of microplastics when shaken

By Layal Liverpool Plastic baby bottles can shed microparticles into the contentsEmma Kim/Getty Images Plastic feeding bottles release an average of 4 million microplastic particles per litre into baby formula during preparation, but it still isn’t clear whether ingesting microplastics is harmful to infant health. John Boland at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and his… Read More: Plastic baby bottles shed millions of microplastics when shaken »

Coronavirus breakthrough: New method could see millions of vaccines produced in UK

“I think we are very confident that some vaccines will come through and work,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme. “There are so many groups working on different approaches and the virus is not as difficult a target as some of the things we have seen before. “The main issue is that it doesn’t… Read More: Coronavirus breakthrough: New method could see millions of vaccines produced… »

Senators press Google on handling of health data for millions of Americans

Three U.S. senators are demanding that Google account for the company’s reported efforts to obtain the health records of millions of Americans without their awareness or consent. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote a letter to Google this week in response to a Wall Street Journal piece published earlier… Read More: Senators press Google on handling of health data for millions… »

New blood test could be used to help millions infected with TB

Protein power The research team set out to create their blood-based test by identifying a signature set of biomarkers in patients’ blood that consistently indicated a high likelihood of ATB, then developing an easily deployable assay that could detect that signature. They first measured the levels of 47 different blood proteins in about 400 samples… Read More: New blood test could be used to help millions infected… »