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TEXTO:

The Checkup 

HEALTH NEWS EXAMINED 

Headline says: 

Can drugs for depression harm babies’ hearts? 

Science says: A study of more than 900,000 women found that those who took antidepressants while pregnant weren’t more likely to have fetuses with heart defects. That’s good news for the 8% to 13% of women who take the drugs, but if you’re pregnant, you should still talk to your physician about side effects.

Headline says: 

The FDA will limit salt in processed foods. 

Science says: The FDA is proposing a guideline on the amount of sodium that manufacturers can add to processed food. The agency says too much sodium leads to high blood pressure and heart disease – but for now it’s just a recommendation, so it’s strictly voluntary.

Headline says:

A broccoli drink can detox your blood

Science says: Scientists gave 300 Chinese men and women a broccoli-sprout beverage that cleared air-pollution toxins from their system faster than normal. The researchers think the answer lies in the cancerpreventing compounds found in the veggies.

PARK, Alice. The Checkup.Time/Jul 7-14, 2014, p.12.

According to the third piece of news, the fact of a broccoli drink being able to detox one’s blood is probably

TEXTO:

The Checkup 

HEALTH NEWS EXAMINED 

Headline says: 

Can drugs for depression harm babies’ hearts? 

Science says: A study of more than 900,000 women found that those who took antidepressants while pregnant weren’t more likely to have fetuses with heart defects. That’s good news for the 8% to 13% of women who take the drugs, but if you’re pregnant, you should still talk to your physician about side effects.

Headline says: 

The FDA will limit salt in processed foods. 

Science says: The FDA is proposing a guideline on the amount of sodium that manufacturers can add to processed food. The agency says too much sodium leads to high blood pressure and heart disease – but for now it’s just a recommendation, so it’s strictly voluntary.

Headline says:

A broccoli drink can detox your blood

Science says: Scientists gave 300 Chinese men and women a broccoli-sprout beverage that cleared air-pollution toxins from their system faster than normal. The researchers think the answer lies in the cancerpreventing compounds found in the veggies.

PARK, Alice. The Checkup.Time/Jul 7-14, 2014, p.12.

About the FDA guideline on the amount of sodium in processed foods, manufacturers

TEXTO:

Programmable brain cells

  Pluripotent stem cell research took off like a rocket 

in 2012. After discovering that skin cells can be 

genetically reprogrammed into stem cells, which can in 

turn be reprogrammed into just about any cell in the 

[5] human body, a team led by Sheng Ding at UCSF 

managed to engineer a working network of newborn 

neurons from a harvest of old skin cells. In other words, 

the team didn’t just convert skin cells into stem cells, 

then into neurons — they actually kept the batch of 

[10] neurons alive and functional long enough to self-organize 

into a primitive neural network. In the near future, it’s 

likely that we’ll be treating many kinds of brain injuries 

by growing brand-new neurons from other kinds of cells 

in a patient’s own body. This is already close on the 

[15] horizon for liver and heart cells — but the thought of 

being able to technologically shape the re-growth of a 

damaged brain is even more exciting. 

PROGRAMMABLE brain cells. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 13 out. 2014.

Considering language use in the text, it’s correct to say:

TEXTO:

Programmable brain cells

  Pluripotent stem cell research took off like a rocket 

in 2012. After discovering that skin cells can be 

genetically reprogrammed into stem cells, which can in 

turn be reprogrammed into just about any cell in the 

[5] human body, a team led by Sheng Ding at UCSF 

managed to engineer a working network of newborn 

neurons from a harvest of old skin cells. In other words, 

the team didn’t just convert skin cells into stem cells, 

then into neurons — they actually kept the batch of 

[10] neurons alive and functional long enough to self-organize 

into a primitive neural network. In the near future, it’s 

likely that we’ll be treating many kinds of brain injuries 

by growing brand-new neurons from other kinds of cells 

in a patient’s own body. This is already close on the 

[15] horizon for liver and heart cells — but the thought of 

being able to technologically shape the re-growth of a 

damaged brain is even more exciting. 

PROGRAMMABLE brain cells. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 13 out. 2014.

About Sheng Ding’s study at UCSF, it’s correct to say that