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SNAP Approved ‘Food’ Contributes to Obesity Epidemic – Liberty Nation News

Amid the ongoing government shutdown, one social safety net has come into sharp focus: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP or its older name, “Food Stamps.” Run by the US Department of Agriculture, SNAP is meant to help low-income families “afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being.” However, a closer […]

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Focused research organisations: what are they, and how do you set them up?

FROs hope to create new scientific tools like AlphaFold, which has automated the prediction of protein structures. Photo credits: Burgstedt / BigStock Over the past few years, a new type of institution has entered the scientific scene: focused research organisations (FROs), which try to build new scientific software, databases and other tools in a rapid, five-year timeframe. So far,.

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