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‘An entourage effect’: new clues on how low-dose CBD products work

22 July 2021 -
Hemp extracts provide a natural vehicle to increase the absorption of CBDA into the bloodstream via the interaction of cannabinoids at specific transport proteins in the gut,” he said. ... Low-dose CBD products appear to reduce anxiety and are
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/07/22/entourage-effect-clues-how-low-dose-cannabinoid-cbd-products-work.html
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Islamic assets weather financial storms

6 September 2023 -
The reduced volatility of Islamic assets is a function of their avoidance of leverage and speculative financial products, which involves purchasing assets such as currencies under the expectation their value will ... Green Islamic corporate bonds that
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/09/06/islamic-assets-weather-financial-storms.html
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Gen Z not ready to eat lab-grown meat: University of Sydney study

10 September 2020 -
35 percent rejected cultured meat and edible insects but accepted plant-based alternatives because they “sounded more natural” and are “normal”. ... 9 percent accepted edible insects but rejected cultured meat as it was too artificial and not
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/09/08/gen-z-not-ready-to-eat-lab-grown-meat--university-of-sydney-stud.html
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Advanced carbon materials research boosted by new funding

20 January 2020 -
Graphitic carbon materials is also a co-product of this process, produced in large quantity. ... value finished products,” said Hazer Chief Technical Officer and co-founder Dr Andrew Cornejo.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/10/30/advanced-carbon-materials-research-boosted-by-new-funding.html
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A breakthrough business that's changing how we shop

6 August 2021 -
The Afterpay logo is suddenly everywhere, not unlike the company's founder, natural-born entrepreneur, Nick Molnar. ... him there was more money to be made in mass-produced lower priced jewellery than high-value products.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/03/26/a-breakthrough-business-thats-changing-how-we-shop.html
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Liversidge Lecture - Faculty of Science

Wednesday June 29, 2022
Professor Richard J. Payne recipient of the Liversidge Lecture 2020, discusses how the use of natural products will continue to provide inspiration for the development of drugs to treat human disease. ... Over the past decade, enormous advances in
www.sydney.edu.au/science/news-and-events/events/liversidge-lecture.html
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Sydney launches new musculoskeletal health research partnership

13 July 2023 -
The novel material, whose structure and strength resemble those of human bone, acts as a scaffold for the body’s natural process of bone regeneration, and gradually degrades as it is ... Associate Professor Elizabeth Clarke from the Faculty of
www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/news-and-events/2021/10/09/sydney-launches-new-musculoskeletal-health-research-partnership.html
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Our 3 Minute Thesis and Visualise Your Thesis winners

8 September 2020 -
Fast and Furious can also win the race. Severely energy-restricted diets of less than 800 calories per day typically involve replacing food with meal replacement products, such as shakes and ... There has been a trend by people living with cancer in
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/09/07/our-3-minute-thesis-and-visualise-your-thesis-winners-.html
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Henry Bertie and Florence Mabel Gritton Medallist Award - Scholarships

to industry and agriculture, including chemistry connected with electrical engineering, metallurgical chemistry and chemistry in its application to mining and the winning and treatment of minerals and natural products of the ... and natural products of
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships/e/henry-bertie-florence-mabel-gritton-medallist-award.html
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Bushfires left millions of animals dead. We should use them, not bury them

As climate change accelerates the number of natural disasters and mass animal deaths, more thought and planning must be put into carcass management. ... Breakdown will be slow, and no useful end product is created.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/17/bushfires-left-millions-of-animals-dead-we-should-use-them-not-bury-them.html