SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a groundbreaking study, a team of the University of California- Davis Health researchers have uncovered the stem cells’ ability to restore immunity and repair gut damage caused by HIV. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight, discovered a special type of stem cell that can reduce the amount of the virus causing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), boosting the body’s antiviral immunity and repairing and restoring the gut’s lymphoid follicles damaged by the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, the equivalent of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in non-human primates. It showed the mechanism through which Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells (MSCs) enhance the body’s immune response to the virus.…
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PHILADELPHIA — Researchers at Monell Chemical Senses Center have been investigating the potential health-promoting qualities of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) for decades, including its possible medicinal value for preventing cancer, Alzheimer’s, and cardiovascular disease, as part of the well-known Mediterranean diet. The team published their findings in the Journal Scientific Reports. It showed that this reluctance might be partly due to EVOO’s bitter taste and pungency caused by the presence of substances known as phenolic compounds, ones believed to contribute to EVOO’s health benefits. Researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center in 2005 identified one of these compounds as an…
SYDNEY — New South Wales police have warned those caught breaking public health order rules will be fined, with increased police patrols during the school holidays. The New South Wales Police Force is the primary law enforcement agency of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Eleven new Covid-19 cases were reported on June 24 linked to the Bondi cluster, including a New South Wales government minister. People living or working in the City of Sydney, Waverley, Randwick, Canada Bay, Inner West, Bayside, and Woollahra, cannot move outside the Sydney metropolitan area unless it’s essential. The City of Canada Bay is…
SYDNEY — Australian Foreign affairs chief Frances Adamson says she has some of the world’s best trade negotiators looking at the risk to Australia from Europe’s cross-border carbon tax. Some see an externally imposed tax on Australia’s commodities and other exports as inevitable, with other developed nations, have signed up to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. As a key measure in Europe’s green deal on becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, the European Commission is developing a carbon border adjustment mechanism, or CBAM, for some sectors. It is scheduled for no later than 2023. Adamson suspected the levy was being used as a “forcing…
SYDNEY — New laws have established a world-first cyber abuse take-down scheme for Australian adults. The online safety laws passed by parliament on June 23 give the eSafety commissioner new powers to have threats, violent material, revenge porn and other vile content removed within 24 hours. Perpetrators can be whacked with fines and jail terms. A complaints mechanism will support people who don’t want to go to the police or through the courts. The bill also provides a rapid website-blocking power during an online crisis event, such as the 2019 live-streamed terrorist attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, that saw regulators helpless while…
DARWIN, Australia — The Northern Territory Health Minister has canceled a 10 billion liters per year water license for a Top End Australian farming project after a review found the original assessment didn’t consider climate change and used the wrong allocation rules. The 12,780 acres Larrimah Agricultural Precinct, about 400km southeast of Darwin, was being spruiked for development by the Northern Territory Land Corporation. It secured a groundwater extraction license for the project after the Northern Territory Department of Environment and Natural Resources assessed the area. The site was suitable for a wide range of irrigated crops, including mangoes, citrus and melons,…
PERTH, Australia — The lawyer for a Tamil family says the immigration minister’s decision to grant visas to all but the youngest child leaves them stuck in Perth, Australia, unable to return to their Queensland community. Carina Ford says Alex Hawke must explain why he gave three-month bridging visas to every member of the Murugappan family except four-year-old Tharnicaa. She remains under a community detention order which requires her to live at a Perth residence nominated by the government. Ford says the minister’s actions effectively prevent the family from returning to Biloela, the Queensland town that has passionately backed their long…
SYDNEY — School holiday plans are in tatters for many Sydney residents, with some confined to the metropolitan area as New South Wales struggles to contain a coronavirus cluster following a “super-spreader event”. Other states have imposed a variety of restrictions for Sydneysiders, with Western Australia and South Australia shutting their borders completely to anyone from New South Wale. Premier Gladys Berejiklian urged residents to “abandon non-essential activities” and enacted rules for residents in Greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour on June 23. A household guest limit of five, including children, and the four-square-meter rule indoors and…
SYDNEY — Australia War Veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has denied at his defamation trial sending a threatening letter to another Special Air Service veteran warning he would “go down” if he spoke out over alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. Roberts-Smith, 42, gave evidence for much of June 23 behind closed doors at the Federal Court trial launched against three newspapers over articles from 2018 he says paint him as a war criminal who broke the moral and legal rules of military engagement with the Special Air Service in Afghanistan. The Victoria Cross winner rejects the claims of war crimes, murder and…
In the digital age, who among us has not forgotten a password from time to time or, worse, gotten locked out of a critical account because one digit of the password was typed incorrectly three times in a row? Mickey Boodaei feels our pain. The veteran Israeli cybersecurity executive’s latest product, BindID, launched in February, does away with passwords entirely. BindID uses the biometric sensors built into every new smartphone to log you in securely and seamlessly. No more text messages sent with a clock ticking down 15 minutes to respond; no more complex combinations of numbers, letters and symbols…