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Using a Smartphone to Check for Counterfeit Merchandise
Medical Design Technology - 23 Feb 2019 21:05
News Two researchers from the University of Copenhagen's Nano-Science Center have developed a labelling system they consider to be fully pirate-proof. The system assigns each individual item a label, a so-called 'tag' th...
Immunotherapy for egg allergy may allow patients to eat egg safely long after treatment
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2019 09:00
(University of North Carolina Health Care) After completing up to four years of egg oral immunotherapy (eOIT) treatment, certain participants were able to safely incorporate egg into their diet for five years. This new r...
Likelihood of tick bite to cause red meat allergy could be higher than previously thought
EurekAlert! - 23 Feb 2019 09:00
(University of North Carolina Health Care) The original hypothesis was that humans developed the red meat allergy after being exposed to the alpha-gal protein through a tick that had fed previously on a small mammal. But...