Category: Biology Philosophy
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(disease > symptoms) or (disease < symptoms) ?
Amyloids — clumps of misfolded proteins found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders — are the quintessential bad boys of neurobiology. They’re thought to muck up the seamless workings of the neurons responsible for memory and movement, and researchers around the world have devoted themselves to devising ways of…
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Synthetic vaccines, natural fears…
British scientists develop a new way to create an entirely synthetic vaccine which does not rely on using live infectious virus, meaning it is much safer. [1] Safer for the virus it is supposed to kill, that is… Because if vaccines based on live viruses have problems with success rates, I can only have nightmares on the success…
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Learning, DSB, DNA…
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered that a certain type of DNA damage long thought to be particularly detrimental to brain cells can actually be part of a regular, non-harmful process. [1] Scientists have long known that DNA damage occurs in every cell, accumulating as we age. But a particular type of DNA damage,…
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Beatles more than Humans…
A Kansas State University research team has found that despite humans increasing nitrogen production through industrialization, nitrogen availability in many ecosystems has remained steady for the past 500 years. Their work appears in the journal Nature. [1] Building, polluting, creating factories and yet… zero result. If I recall correctly, insects have more effect on the planet’s ecosystem. Trying…
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Frogs, resurrection & the arrogance of science…
The genome of an extinct Australian frog has been revived and reactivated by a team of scientists using sophisticated cloning technology to implant a “dead” cell nucleus into a fresh egg from another frog species. The bizarre gastric-brooding frog,Rheobatrachus silus – which uniquely swallowed its eggs, brooded its young in its stomach and gave birth through…
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