Google Doodle Pays Tribute To Michiyo Tsujimura; 133rd Birth Anniversary
The Google Homepage featured a beautiful illustration of the Japanese Scientist and Educator Michiyo Tsujimura for her 133rd Birthday on September 17. She was born in 1888 in Okegawa, Japan where she spent her early life teaching science. Tsujimura is remembered for her groundbreaking research into studying the nutritional benefits of Green Tea. Later, she created history by holding the dean position at the Faculty of Home Economics in 1950… read-more
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Antioxidant Found In Green Tea May Help Destroy Cancerous Cells: Study
A study in the journal 'Nature Communications' reported that the compound found in green tea could boost the prevalence of bodily anti-cancer protein p53. The study claimed the green tea antioxidant named Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) interacts with p53 to guard it against degradation refining its anti-cancer functions. Stating that p53 pauses cell growth to stimulate DNA repairing and cancer cell death, the study recommended the… read-more
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