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October 25, 2019
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Oct

Where the sun doesn’t shine? Skin UV exposure reflected in poop

October 25, 2019
October 24, 2019 , Frontiers Excerpts: The sun can indeed shine out of your backside, suggests research. Not because you’re self-absorbed, but because you’ve absorbed gut-altering UV radiation. This is the first study to show that skin exposure to UVB light alters the gut microbiome in humans. Published in Frontiers in Microbiology, the analysis suggests that vitamin D mediates the change—which...
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25
Oct

City of Joburg website hacked

October 25, 2019
Source: https://www.enca.com/news/city-of-joburg-website-hacked Friday 25 October 2019 – 7:27am JOHANNESBURG – The City of Johannesburg website has been hacked. Snippet: In a twitter statement posted on Friday morning, the city said it detected a network breach resulting in unauthorised information to its network system. This has forced it to shut down its website and e-services as a security measure....
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25
Oct

International Workshop on the causes of childhood leukemia Freising (Munich), November 20-22, 2019

October 25, 2019
International Workshop on the causes of childhood leukemia General Information Unexplained findings from epidemiological studies in two different areas of radiation protection prompted the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) to intensify the research on the etiology of childhood leukemia: (i) the increased incidence of childhood leukemia near nuclear power plants and (ii) the...
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