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We question the need for extra protein in a runner’s diet – and explore expert advice on optimum amounts and timing

BALTIMORE -- On a cold morning in a Remsen Hall chemistry lab at the Johns Hopkins University, five undergraduates laughed and chatted as they mixed together amino acids and catalysts, trying to better understand the origins of life.

Our easy-to-digest gut-health guide features tips from three experts – a nutritionist, a functional medicine practitioner and a fitness trainer – plus our choice of the best gut-health products

Last week, an Australian “cultured meat” company called Vow made headlines with a meatball made from the flesh of a woolly mammoth – or something very much like it. Combining the technologies of lab-based cell culture and “de-extinction,” Vow scientists grew muscle proteins based on DNA sequences from the long-dead…