Author: Erin Elizabeth

Berlin grocery store, Original Unverpackt, is an experiment in grocering.  They sell upwards of 350 products dispensed from refillable containers, while some of the liquids come in bottles with deposits on them.  The store creates zero waste and the customer is able to purchase exactly as much as he or she needs, which contributes to less waste at home. Sara Wolf and Milena Glimbovski crowdfunded the store and, driven by the idea to do “something impossible,” have established a way to economically sell food without contributing to the huge amounts of municipal waste caused by food packaging. *Article originally...

As we get older, tiny blood vessels in our brains can stiffen and sometimes rupture which causes a microbleed. This damage has been associated with neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive decline and until recently, it wasn’t clear whether the brain could repair itself after damage like this. However, researchers in China have shown that white blood cells called macrophages can grab the broken ends of a blood vessel and ‘stick’ them back together (in zebrafish models). Their work was recently published on May 3rd in the journal Immunity. Dr. Luo Lingfei, a developmental geneticist at Southwest University said, “Microbleeding occurs very often...