Internet Chip, Tomato Diet, Wrong Time Meds

Today we discuss how a new piece of technology is able to transfer the data of the entire internet in just one second, how eating a lot of tomatoes can improve your gut health, and how scientists are looking into how medicine is processed in the body at different times of day. 

Internet Chip

• “Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second” By Michael Irving
  • https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/optical-chip-fastest-data-transmission-record-entire-internet-traffic/
• “Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source” by A. A. Jørgensen et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01082-z
• “A New Chip Is Capable of Transmitting All of the Internet's Traffic Every Second” by Anthony Wood
  • https://www.ign.com/articles/world-record-data-transfer-internet-chip

Tomato Diet 

• “Tracing tomatoes’ health benefits to gut microbes” by Emily Caldwell
  • https://news.osu.edu/tracing-tomatoes-health-benefits-to-gut-microbes/
• “Short-Term Tomato Consumption Alters the Pig Gut Microbiome toward a More Favorable Profile” by Mallory L. Goggans et al.
  • https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02506-22

Wrong Time Meds 

• “New insights into the harms of taking medicines at the wrong time of day” By Rich Haridy
  • https://newatlas.com/science/circadian-sedative-heart-damage-drug-time-day-dose/
• “Timing matters for medications – your circadian rhythm influences how well treatments work and how much they might harm you” by Tobias Eckle
  • https://theconversation.com/timing-matters-for-medications-your-circadian-rhythm-influences-how-well-treatments-work-and-how-much-they-might-harm-you-194906
• “How circadian disruptions promote tumor growth and timing of cancer drugs may be vital” By Rich Haridy
  • https://newatlas.com/circadian-cancer-tumor-night-shift-chronotherapy/59498/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body
• “Anti-inflammatory drugs slow healing, if taken at wrong time of day” By Rich Haridy
  • https://newatlas.com/medical/anti-inflammatory-drugs-impair-bone-healing-circadian-clock/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body
• “Time-of-day dependent effects of midazolam administration on myocardial injury in non-cardiac surgery” by Meghan Prin et al.
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2022.982209/full

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