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When worms were limited in the amount of food they could eat, the FMO protein, which was highlighted using a fluorescent marker, lit up “like a Christmas tree…it was bright red,” noted Leiser. However, when the worms were exposed to food smells, there was considerably less activation of FMO, leading to a loss of life extension.
— Read more in Serotonin and Dopamine Modulate Aging in Response to Food Odor and Availability at Neuroscience News.
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Sustainability? We take it very, very seriously. And it's not just greenwashing. When I joined Dior, for example, I did training dedicated to reducing my footprint not only at work, but in my private life. This morning, I had a three-hour session with the CEO and the dedicated sustainability team about how we have to halve our footprint by 2030. And the team will be communicating soon what Dior is doing, and we are massively involved. I like the challenge very much – because it can be a game changer.
— Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian on Dior. Read more in Master perfumer Francis Kurkdjian on taking the helm at Dior Parfums and the future of fragrance at Harper's Bazaar.
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Singer-songwriter FKA twigs for Viktor & Rolf Good Fortune. Below the jump, a shorter materials-oriented spot.
But a heatwave has slashed this year's harvest of rose petals, labour is hard to find and the global surge in energy prices has increased costs for a product so precious that it is dubbed "liquid gold".
This year's oil will be "considerably more expensive," Plamen Stankovski, a partner at rose oil producer and exporter Bulattars, told AFP in his distillery near Pavel Banya, in Bulgaria's famed Rose Valley.
— Read more in Inflation a thorn in the side of Bulgaria rose oil makers at Yahoo! News.
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Guerlain perfumer Thierry Wasser in Grasse, for the L’Art & La Matière fragrances.