HEALTH AND SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

September 5, 2018 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• Children born through IVF face higher risk of cardiovascular disease, warns study (The Independent)
• HIV/AIDS research yields dividends across medical fields (NIH)
• China bans pig travel from African swine fever regions as sixth case detected (Reuters)
• Record High Number of STD Infections in U.S., As Prevention Funding Declines  (NPR)
• What Sparked an E. Coli Outbreak in Lettuce? Scientists Trace a Surprising Source (NPR)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• America’s Lakes Are Losing Their Blue Hue as Waters Shift to Murky Greenish-Brown (Smithsonian)
• To store really big data, Molecular Assemblies thinks really small — DNA (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Changing a Cow's Diet May Help Slow Global Warming (Associated Press)
• Divers discover massive coral reefs off the coast of South Carolina (Charlottesville Observer)
• Google, Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales (Jewish World Review)
• Scientists found brain’s internal clock that influences how we perceive time (Arstechnica)
• Astronauts find hole in the International Space Station, plug it with thumb (CNET)

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HEALTH

Children born through IVF face higher risk of cardiovascular disease, warns study (The Independent)

 Children conceived through IVF and other forms of assisted reproduction are more likely to suffer from cardiovascular diseases which can have life-long health effects, Swiss researchers have found.

HIV/AIDS research yields dividends across medical fields (NIH)

Nearly four decades of study has propelled advances in heart disease, hepatitis, cancer and other diseases.

China bans pig travel from African swine fever regions as sixth case detected (Reuters)

China imposed a ban on Sunday on transporting pigs and pork products from provinces which have reported outbreaks of African swine fever and will shut live hog markets in the regions, as authorities found a sixth case of the highly contagious virus.

Record High Number of STD Infections in U.S., As Prevention Funding Declines (NPR)

For the fourth year in a row, federal health officials report that there has been a sharp increase in sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tallied nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in 2017 — an increase of 200,000 cases over the previous year, and a record high.

What Sparked an E. Coli Outbreak in Lettuce? Scientists Trace a Surprising Source (NPR)

According to the FDA, it probably came from a large cattle feedlot at one end of a valley near Yuma, Ariz., which is one of the country's biggest lettuce-growing areas….Some vegetable farmers are wondering whether they can still co-exist with all those cattle nearby.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

America’s Lakes Are Losing Their Blue Hue as Waters Shift to Murky Greenish-Brown (Smithsonian)

 Over five-year period, the country’s number of blue lakes declined by 18 percent, while murky lakes increased by 12 percent 

To store really big data, Molecular Assemblies thinks really small — DNA (San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego’s Molecular Assemblies, one of a number of companies looking to use DNA as the ultimate data storage system, says it has made a significant advance in making practical use of the famed double helix. The privately held company says it has developed a faster and more accurate way of storing and retrieving information, the critical “read/write” process performed routinely by hard drives.

Changing a Cow's Diet May Help Slow Global Warming (Associated Press)

 University of California researchers are feeding seaweed to dairy cows in an attempt to make cattle more climate-friendly

Divers discover massive coral reefs off the coast of South Carolina (Charlottesville Observer)

The Charlotte Observer - Deep sea explorers in a submersible found an “extensive, previously unconfirmed” reef off South Carolina that stretches for 85 miles, with mounds of coral up to 330 feet high. NOAA backed the mission.

Google, Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales (Jewish World Review)

For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. But most of the 2 billion Mastercard holders aren't aware of this behind-the-scenes tracking.

Scientists found brain’s internal clock that influences how we perceive time (Arstechnica)

A chocoholic rat named Marco helped scientists find special brain cell network. 

Astronauts find hole in the International Space Station, plug it with thumb (CNET)

There's a hole in my spaceship, dear NASA, a hole.