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Popular Sweetener Found in Protein Bars Tied to Stroke, Blood Clot Risk

Two chemicals that help regulate blood clots are affected by a common sugar alcohol found in protein bars and zero-sugar energy drinks, researchers have found.

Health Matthew Phelan Mar 30

Sorry, Batman, This Luxury Lifestyle Brand Is All About Bruce Wayne

Want to live like Gotham's most famous billionaire playboy? Then this may be for you (and your apparently massive bank account).

Toys & Collectibles Rob Bricken Sep 20

$2.8 Million for One Treatment: These Are the Most Expensive Drugs in the U.S

From gene therapies to generics, many treatments in the U.S. carry an outrageous sticker price.

Health Ed Cara Aug 18

1,000-Year-Old Gold Mask Found in Tomb Was Painted With Human Blood

An analysis of red paint on a Peruvian mask turned up some interesting additives, including human blood proteins.

Human History Isaac Schultz Oct 29

U.S. Kids Are Now Getting Nearly 70% of Their Calories From ‘Ultra-Processed’ Foods

Frozen and sugary foods are some the worst offenders, according to new research.

Health Isaac Schultz Aug 10

Enormous Genetic Study Will Help Scientists Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease

There’s no doubt that inflammatory bowel disease is horrible. Its consequences, all sorts of gastrointestinal distress, can be downright debilitating. But treating it is full of uncertainty—folks with the same symptoms might respond in wildly different ways. That’s why scientists are trying to pinpoint its cause, among all the genetic complexities that can contribute. A…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Jun 29

The Olympian’s Breakfast Contains Meat, Nuts, and Even More Meat

If you want to get as fit as an Olympic athlete you need to dedicate your entire life to training in your sport. You can also eat a whole lot of meat and nuts for breakfast. And when we say meat, we mean real meat—the kind you can’t get in basic grocery stores. Screw the…

Tech News Carli Velocci Aug 14

Crickets Aren’t the Superfood They’re Cracked Up to Be

Bug-eating evangelists like to talk about how crickets are caloric magic, claiming the insects can transform table scraps into a crunchy, healthy protein. A new study debunks at least one aspect of what’s being touted everywhere as the food of the future. Turns out crickets are not the resource-efficient calorie-making machines we believe them to…

Tech News Alissa Walker Apr 16

Ice cream made with jellyfish protein glows when you lick it

Artisanal ice cream sometimes contains unusual ingredients, like foie gras, blue cheese, or horseradish, but Lick Me I’m Delicious’ latest ice cream innovation contains jellyfish protein, not for its flavor, but for its luminescent properties. Food tinkerer and Bristol-based Lick Me I’m Delicious founder Charlie Harry Francis decided to play with the synthesized protein, which…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 4

These Protein Bars Are Made Of Crickets

If I had a truly sophisticated palate and open mind I wouldn’t even blink when I read that there was cricket flour in my granola bar. But I am unrefined and simple. The idea of a cricket bar makes me simultaneously concerned and curious. For some reason I feel like “slow roasted and milled crickets”…

Health Lily Hay Newman Aug 4

Taco Bell prepares us for synth meat and textured veg protein

Taco Bell has decided to start using the word “protein” instead of “meat” on a special, new meat-heavy menu. Could this be the first step toward acclimating us to fake and synthetic meat — I mean, protein? According to Business Week: On July 25, Taco Bell will start testing a new “Power Protein” menu in…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 24

Three Fast, Easy, High-Protein Meals On the Go

The number one reason most of us grab an unhealthy meal over a healthy one is convenience. Junk food is ready to be stuffed in your face, and when you’re short on time, cooking is one of the first things to go out the window. Today we’re going to show you three super simple, healthy,…

Health Brent Rose Jun 5

The Super Protein That Can Cut DNA and Revolutionize Genetic Engineering

When scientists Phillipe Horvath and Rodolphe Barrangou set out to find a better way to make yogurt, they didn’t expect to stumble across one of the future’s most promising discoveries: a super protein that can accurately cut DNA—and could perhaps revolutionize genetic engineering. The protein, called Cas9, can be exploited to snip strands of DNA…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 20

A 3-and-a-half-hour video of the world’s longest word being read aloud

Okay, technically the 189,819-letter IUPAC name of titin, the largest known protein which is responsible for passive elasticity of muscle, is a verbal formula rather than an actual word, but it’s dizzying to imagine all those syllables tumbling out of a human mouth. Well, now you don’t have to imagine it—provided you can sit through…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 17

Water May Not Be So Important for Life After All

Common knowledge suggests that water is the most important molecule required for life to survive. But new research shows that proteins that usually contain it can function perfectly well without it—throwing into question the perceived wisdom that water is so vital. A team of researchers from the Institute for Structural Biology in Grenoble, France, took…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Aug 9

Scientist Creates Pizza Healthy Enough to Eat 3 Times a Day, Every Day

Pizza is so good that most of us would be happy to eat it breakfast, lunch and dinner, if it weren’t for the fact that it was more than a little unhealthy. But now a scientist has created what he claims is the first nutritionally balanced pizza—and it’s OK to eat it three times a…

Health Jamie Condliffe Jul 3

Life on Earth might never have happened without some well-placed rocks

Biologically speaking, it isn’t that hard to create very simple, one-celled organisms. But the leap to multicellular life requires many factors to line up just perfectly. Now a new hypothesis suggests we wouldn’t even be here without some well-timed erosion. Certain proteins seem to be essential for the rise of multicellular organisms, and those proteins…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 17

Hydra don’t need brains or even eyes to see

It’s hard to imagine an organism much simpler than the hydra. It doesn’t have brains, hearts, or eyes – it’s basically just tentacles with a mouth attached. And yet these simple creatures pull of biological feats no other animal can. Hydra are one of a few species – flatworms are another recently discussed example –…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 5

Bacteria attack each other with poisonous, spring-loaded daggers

Bacteria pretty much have nano-sized versions of anything humans can come up with. That list somehow includes knife-wielding street gangs, as some bacteria shoot poison-tipped molecular “daggers” at each other, proving that nothing does awesome violence quite like bacteria. The firing mechanism for this dagger is tiny, even by bacterial standards — it’s the equivalent…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 27

Gamers Crack Code That Could Lead to New AIDS Treatments

Scientists spent a decade trying—and failing—to map the structure of an enzyme that could help solve a crucial part of the AIDS puzzle. It took online gamers all of three weeks. The enzyme in question is the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus retroviral protease, and researchers have been seeking ways of deactivating it as a way of…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 19

protein

Popular Sweetener Found in Protein Bars Tied to Stroke, Blood Clot Risk

Sorry, Batman, This Luxury Lifestyle Brand Is All About Bruce Wayne

$2.8 Million for One Treatment: These Are the Most Expensive Drugs in the U.S

1,000-Year-Old Gold Mask Found in Tomb Was Painted With Human Blood

U.S. Kids Are Now Getting Nearly 70% of Their Calories From ‘Ultra-Processed’ Foods

Enormous Genetic Study Will Help Scientists Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The Olympian’s Breakfast Contains Meat, Nuts, and Even More Meat

Crickets Aren’t the Superfood They’re Cracked Up to Be

Ice cream made with jellyfish protein glows when you lick it

These Protein Bars Are Made Of Crickets

Taco Bell prepares us for synth meat and textured veg protein

Three Fast, Easy, High-Protein Meals On the Go

The Super Protein That Can Cut DNA and Revolutionize Genetic Engineering

A 3-and-a-half-hour video of the world’s longest word being read aloud

Water May Not Be So Important for Life After All

Scientist Creates Pizza Healthy Enough to Eat 3 Times a Day, Every Day

Life on Earth might never have happened without some well-placed rocks

Hydra don’t need brains or even eyes to see

Bacteria attack each other with poisonous, spring-loaded daggers

Gamers Crack Code That Could Lead to New AIDS Treatments

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