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New reasons eating less fat should be one of your resolutions

High fat impairs immune, intestinal, and brain health

05-Jan-2024 - A UC Riverside study to motivate your new year’s resolutions: it demonstrates that high-fat diets affect genes linked not only to obesity, colon cancer and irritable bowels, but also to the immune system, brain function, and potentially COVID-19 risk. While other studies have examined the effects ...

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New strategies to save the world’s most indispensable grain

Genetic insights help rice survive drought and flood

24-May-2022 - Plants - they’re just like us, with unique techniques for handling stress. To save one of the most important crops on Earth from extreme climate swings, scientists are mapping out plants’ own stress-busting strategies. A UC Riverside-led team has learned what happens to the roots of rice plants ...

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Like peanut butter? This algorithm has a hunch as to what you'll buy next

A new technique can incorporate customer behavior into recommendation algorithms

08-Feb-2022 - Recommendation algorithms can make a customer’s online shopping experience quicker and more efficient by suggesting complementary products whenever the shopper adds a product to their basket. Did the customer buy peanut butter? The algorithm recommends several brands of jelly to add next. These ...

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How diet influences taste sensitivity and preference

UC Riverside fruit-fly study shows food choice can be regulated to mitigate nutrient deficit or excess

17-Dec-2021 - What you eat influences your taste for what you might want to eat next. So claims a University of California, Riverside,studyperformed on fruit flies. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, offers a better understanding of neurophysiological plasticity of the taste system in ...

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Grow and eat your own vaccines?

Grant enables study of plants as mRNA factories

21-Sep-2021 - The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories. Messenger RNA or mRNA technology, used in COVID-19 vaccines, works by teaching our cells to ...

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