SPORT looks to have had a significant effect on the community in Iceland, which is experiencing a record-breaking baby boom exactly nine months after the country's stunning victory over England in the Euro 2016 football tournament.
The famous 2-1 win happened on 28 Jun in France, with last weekend (25-26 Mar) seeing the highest ever amount of epidurals administered to patients in Icelandic hospitals.
Just about every single person in Iceland watched the match - and lots of them clearly celebrated in style, with Britain's Daily Mail describing the revelry as having "created a new generation of Vikings".
IT'S a brewery, but not as you know it.
Some 300,000 babies are born every year with genetic blood disorders like sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemias but now researchers from Boston Medical Centre have figured out an answer - brewing blood that can meet transfusion demands.
The researchers are working on growing personalised blood cells, and in essence 'brew blood'.
The technique involves taking a small sample of a patient's blood, and reprogramming the red blood cells to become master stem cells -- cells capable of being regrown into the same cell type.
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