The question for dental professionals looms perhaps large: should they urge patients to use garlic as a mouthwash? This review study tries to find an answer to that question: “The Clinical Antimicrobial Efficacy of Garlic Extract (Allium Sativum) Compared to Chlorhexidine Mouthwash: A Systematic Review,” Youmna Ahmed Abdelaal, Heba Talal Saeed, Malak Ahmad Elayyan, Sara […]
Julie Mennella, co-winner (with Gary Beauchamp) of the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize for Pediatrics, was interviewed by Kayla Yup of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The headline says: “The Philadelphia scientists who studied garlic-flavored breast milk won a 2025 Ig Nobel Prize — Mennella was one of two scientists at Monell Chemical Senses Center to win a […]
“Discovery could lead to more potent garlic, boosting flavor and bad breath” is the punch-in-the-nose headline in a news release from Virginia Tech. The lead researcher [pictured here, gazing at a test tube] explains: “This information changes the whole story about how garlic could be improved or we could make the compounds responsible of its […]
Attention electronic engineers – stuck for a suitable material for creating supercapacitor electrodes? Have you thought about carbonized garlic skin? If not, may we recommend a new research paper scheduled for publication in the journal Nanoscale – entitled ‘Synthesis of Garlic Skin-Derived 3D Hierarchical Porous Carbon for High-Performance Supercapacitors’. Researchers Qing Zhang, Kuihua Han, Shijie […]