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Hizb ut-Tahrir will once again take the streets of London and fears are mounting they will once again call for jihad.
The hard-to-kill porcine threat are so-called “super pigs” – a hybrid of Eurasian wild boar and domestic swine.
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The Express’s Christian Calgie revealed some raging texts from right-wing Tory MPs, including one who said the government was “trotting out bull****”.
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IN THE PRESS – Thursday, November 23: We look at reactions in the Dutch papers after Geert Wilders’ party wins legislative elections and must now form a coalition to govern. Also: Italian lawmakers pass a law protecting victims of domestic violence, after the death of an Italian student garners front page news. Plus, a new study shows that astronauts may suffer from erectile dysfunction as a result of prolonged time spent in space.
The transport system in Paris will not be ready in time for the 2024 Olympic Games in the French capital, its mayor said, sparking anger Thursday from political opponents.
The future is here.
Branded as a budget for a spring election, today’s Autumn Statement was packed full of ‘giveaways’ designed to appeal to voters.
A fatty acid in red meat and dairy helps destroy cancer cells (Picture: Getty/Science Photo Libra)
Eating red meat and dairy could help to fight cancer, a new study suggests.
Scientists have discovered that a specific fatty acid found in beef, lamb and dairy products improves the body’s ability to attack and kill tumours.
The study, published in the journal Nature, also shows that patients with higher levels of the fatty acid – known as trans-vaccenic acid (TVA) – in their blood responded better to immunotherapy, suggesting that it could work as a nutritional supplement to complement clinical cancer treatments.
‘There are many studies trying to decipher the link between diet and human health, and it’s very difficult to understand the underlying mechanisms because of the wide variety of foods people eat,’ said co-author Professor Jing Chen, of the University of Chicago.
‘But if we focus on just the nutrients and metabolites derived from food, we begin to see how they influence physiology and pathology.
‘By focusing on nutrients that can activate T cell [immune] responses, we found one that actually enhances anti-tumour immunity by activating an important immune pathway.’
Could steak help cure cancer? (Picture: Getty/iStockphoto)
For the study, the team started with a database of around 700 known metabolites, small molecules that come from food, and assembled a ‘blood nutrient’ library.
They then screened the compounds in this new library for their ability to influence anti-tumour immunity.
After the scientists evaluated the top six candidates in both human and mouse cells, they saw that TVA performed the best.
‘After millions of years of evolution, there are only a couple hundred metabolites derived from food that end up circulating in the blood, so that means they could have some importance in our biology,’ said Professor Chen.
‘To see that a single nutrient like TVA has a very targeted mechanism on a targeted immune cell type, with a very profound physiological response at the whole organism level – I find that really amazing and intriguing.’
The team found that feeding mice a diet enriched with TVA significantly reduced the tumour growth potential of melanoma and colon cancer cells, as well as enhancing the body’s ability to infiltrate tumours.
Dairy products also contain a ‘good’ fatty acid that appears to help fight cancer (Picture: Getty)
They then analysed blood samples from hospital patients undergoing immunotherapy treatment for lymphoma and discovered that patients with higher levels of TVA tended to respond better to treatment than those with lower levels.
Finally, the study discovered that TVA enhanced the ability of an immunotherapy drug to kill leukaemia cells in patients.
However, the authors do not believe eating excessive red meat is the solution and hope to find similar results in plants.
Professor Chen added: ‘There is a growing body of evidence about the detrimental health effects of consuming too much red meat and dairy, so this study shouldn’t be taken as an excuse to eat more cheeseburgers and pizza.
‘There is early data showing that other fatty acids from plants signal through a similar receptor, so we believe there is a high possibility that nutrients from plants can do the same thing by activating the CREB pathway as well.’
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