Category: Scientific terminology
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Hunting dark matter. Creating our ghosts...
The hunt for dark matter. (1) I will not stop saying again and again the obious: Calling something by a name does not necessarily make you a "scientist". Letting others call something by a specific name (e.g. "God") does make you a FREE thinker though... Science needs imagination. Not crude definitions.
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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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I know the "involved" mechanism... (and other science jargon tricks)
Scientists have identified a key molecule responsible for triggering the chemical processes in our brain linked to our formation of memories. The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits, reveal a new target for therapeutic interventions to reverse the devastating effects of memory loss. The BBSRC-funded research, led by scientists at the University…
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