Lindsey Choo

1 week ago | forbes.com | Lindsey Choo

A newly-engineered probiotic can help reduce levels of mercury and make it safer to eat fish, according to new research from UCLA and UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The group of researchers used a gut bacterium to engineer a probiotic fed to mice with a diet high in bluefish tuna and found that it resulted in lower levels of methylmercury – a more concentrated and toxic form of mercury – than would have occurred otherwise.

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Lindsey Choo

In a small meeting room in digital investment advising firm Betterment’s office in Manhattan, chief executive Sarah Levy seems relaxed in a hoodie and sneakers. Just outside the room, a wall-mounted television plays a news broadcast covering the ongoing market volatility as a result of President Donald Trump’s new tariff policies. Two months earlier, Betterment had just acquired the automated business of Ellevest, a robo-advisor focused on women’s wealth.

2 months ago | forbes.com.mx | Lindsey Choo

En noviembre de 2020, Alana Peralez recibió el tipo de llamada de emergencia que había estado temiendo. Su padre, que entonces tenía 84 años y era un ingeniero aeroespacial jubilado que había vivido solo en su casa de Arizona desde que su madre murió en 2006, había sufrido un derrame cerebral. Después de meses de rehabilitación en un asilo de ancianos y luego en un hogar comunitario, todavía tenía problemas de movilidad y de realización de tareas complejas.

2 months ago | lado.mx | Lindsey Choo

Forbes México. Así es como la tarjeta Visa de esta fintech evita que el abuelo se gaste todos sus ahorrosEn noviembre de 2020, Alana Peralez recibió el tipo de llamada de emergencia que había estado temiendo. Su padre, que entonces tenía 84 años y era un ingeniero aeroespacial jubilado que había vivido solo en su casa de Arizona desde que su madre murió en 2006, había sufrido un derrame cerebral.

2 months ago | forbes.com | Lindsey Choo

True Link Financial offers a debit card with spending controls expressly designed for people with dementia, other cognitive deficits or addiction issues. It also manages special needs trusts. By Lindsey Choo, Forbes StaffIn November 2020, Alana Peralez received the sort of emergency call she’d been dreading. Her then 84-year-old dad, a retired aerospace engineer who’d lived alone in his Arizona house since her mom died in 2006, had suffered a stroke.