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Imagine you’re lounging comfortably at home, watching TV, when a car ad comes up showing a vehicle traveling at high speed on a windy road. Inside, an infant is shown in a baby seat that… isn’t secured. How would that commercial make you feel about the advertiser? Thankfully that never happens in real life, right?

A team of cognitive health and aging research specialists affiliated with a large number of institutions in Japan has found that ingesting wasabi can help improve both long- and short-term memory retention in older adults. For their study, published in the journal Nutrients, the group gave one group of older adult volunteers daily wasabi tablets and another group a daily placebo for three months.

By ROGERS KALERO

PEASANT farmers in Maposa area of Roan constituency in Luanshya district of the Copperbelt Province are excited with the return of former republican President Edgar Lungu to active politics and have pledged their support as the former head of State embarks on the crusade to defend democracy.

By analyzing data from the Harvard Implicit Association Test—a widely accepted measure of a person’s attitudes toward people based on characteristics like race, gender, and sexuality—researchers find that health care professionals, and in particular nurses, are more biased against transgender people than are people who are not health care professionals.

A survey from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago found that 40% of parents who worked remotely during the pandemic reported higher parenting stress compared with only 27% of parents who worked onsite.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden have uncovered the molecular logic underpinning the assembly of spinal circuits that control the speed of locomotion in adult zebrafish. The study has been published in Nature Neuroscience.

A large international team of medical researchers and epidemiologists has found evidence that monkeypox (mpox) has been circulating in humans since 2016. In their study, reported in the journal Science, the group used Bayesian evolutionary analysis of the mpox virus to show that its genomic history includes years of change due to human infections.

Cancer cells are often a mess of mutations. About 20% to 25% of cancers involve mutations in a complex of molecules called SWI/SNF. Yet drugs designed to block SWI/SNF activity haven’t always worked as expected. Researchers at Harvard Medical School have now figured out why.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, along with an international team of researchers, are shedding new light on the causes of type 2 diabetes. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, offers a potential strategy for developing new therapies that could restore dysfunctional pancreatic beta-cells or, perhaps, even prevent type 2 diabetes from developing.

Many people will have heard about “intergenerational practice” via the TV.