The Garden Centers Association is holding regional meetings in the South Thames area on January 27th, followed by a joint meeting for the Midlands and Wales & West areas on January 28th.
Monty Don has been named Ambassador for the International Year of Plant Health, which runs until 2021
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Monty Don has been named Ambassador for the International Year of Plant Health, which runs until 2021
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Hospitality and health food suppliers face economic "cliffs," say trade associations
The Fresh Produce Consortium is part of a coalition of 18 trade associations led by the British Frozen Food Federation that have written to the Chancellor and other ministers and politicians (George Eustice, Kwasi Kwarteng, Anneliese Dodds and Ed Miliband) for immediate action – call for assistance to food manufacturers in supplying the hospitality and […]
Researchers and Others Uncover Omnipresent Health Threats From Unregulated Battery Recycling – ScienceDaily
Decades after the industrialized world largely eliminated lead poisoning in children, the powerful neurotoxin is still lurking in every third child worldwide. A new study by researchers at Stanford University and other institutions in Bangladesh found that a relatively affordable remediation process can almost completely remove lead left behind by unregulated battery recycling – an […]
Dobbies Garden Centers Podcast offers garden health benefits
Dobbies Garden Centers partnered with the Stroke Association for Stroke Prevention Day.
Poor gut health linked to severe COVID-19, new review shows – ScienceDaily
People infected with COVID-19 experience a variety of symptoms and degrees of severity, the most commonly reported ones, including high fever and difficulty breathing. However, autopsies and other studies have also shown that the infection can affect the liver, kidney, heart, spleen, and even the gastrointestinal tract. A significant proportion of patients hospitalized with breathing […]
New Evidence of Health Threats from Chemicals in Marijuana and Tobacco Smoke – ScienceDaily
Scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found new evidence of the potential health risks of chemicals in tobacco and marijuana smoke. In a study published online today by EClinicalMedicineThe researchers report that people who smoked marijuana only had several smoke-related toxic chemicals in their blood and […]
Light-controlled genes could show how gut bacteria affect health – ScienceDaily
Baylor College of Medicine researcher Meng Wang had previously shown that bacteria that produce a metabolite called colanic acid (CA) can extend the life of worms by up to 50% in her laboratory. However, her collaboration with synthetic biologist Jeffrey Tabor at Rice University provides tools for answering the bigger question of how the metabolite […]
New Reference Genome for Mammals Helps Identify Genetic Variants for Human Health – ScienceDaily
The rhesus monkey is the most widely studied non-human primate in biomedical research. A genome sequencing project for this species led by researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Missouri, and the University of Washington has created a new framework for studying this important primate. Research published in the journal science established a […]