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You have proteins on your mind
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
Food cravings are something we are all familiar with but scientists have only just begun to understand the science behind them.
In a new study by Professor Mark N. Wu at John Hopkins University, published in Science, scientists established the circuit of brain cells which controls fruit fly hunger for a protein diet.
This is especially important for understanding how the brain controls hunger for certain nutrients may help in the treatment of obesity in humans.
Animals are known to change...
Why black and white stripes trigger seizures
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
Sleep unlocks secret of youth for the elderly
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
As we age, our nights can become more eventful with regular toilet trips, spells of wakefulness and the many other annoyances that disrupt a good night's slumber. According to neuroscientists, this doesn't mean that the elderly need less sleep overall.
A recent review published in Neuron highlighted that the aging population are more likely to suffer memory loss as well as a wide range of mental and physical disorders, such as diabetes, heart attacks, stroke, depression and even cancer, if their...
New treatment might provide faster recovery from Tuberculosis
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
A study has revealed that that a new drug regimen for tuberculosis could reduce treatment time by up to 75% as well as cutting the risk for the development of drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB) in patients.
According to the World Health Organisation, an estimated 10.4 million new cases of TB were reported in 2015 and of those 1.8 million died. There were also at least 480,000 new cases of multi-drug resistant TB in 2015. It comes as no surprise that TB is a global health problem as it overtakes HIV...
Genes not solely to blame for different types of autism
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
Scientists have revealed a new cause of autism spectrum disorders that has nothing to do with your DNA. These disorders share similar modifications in the brain that are independent of genetic activity.
The study, conducted at the Genome Institute of Singapore, showed that nearly 70% of individuals with both rare and common types of autism spectrum disorder display a similar pattern of histone acetylation.
Histone acetylation is the chemical change of the scaffold around which DNA wraps itself....
Beauty eShop Iparfumerie and Beautyspin is Rebranding to Notino!
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
Scientists teach computers to read mammograms
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
Scientists teach computers to read mammograms
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
The same hormone could be responsible for love and aggression
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
In our day-to-day lives we are called upon to make instantaneous "engage or avoid", snap judgments when encountering new people; these judgments may play significant roles in our future interactions, such as choosing a potential mate, for example, or sidestepping or taking on conflict. Behavioral and social cognition research, including a recent study published by a team at the University of Bonn in Germany and the University of Electronic Science and Technology in Chengdu, China led by Prof....
The dancing cells make the embryo
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
A powerful study in embryology by a team from European Molecular Biology Labs (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany and Institut Curie, Paris reveals what drives cells in becoming the fetus rather than the placenta very early in mouse embryo development.
Soon after the sperm and egg meet forming an embryo, it divides into a mass of cells. According to the lead author at Institut Curie, Dr. Jean-Leon Maître, "In the very first days of our development, cells make their very first decision of either...
Reading literary fiction is good for your social skills
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
Heart nano-patch makes a small bionic footprint
June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM
Heart disease is one of the biggest concerns for the aging populations.
Someone has a heart attack every three minutes in the UK, with 30% of these attacks being fatal. New technologies to help patients recover from a heart attack are desperately needed, which is where a new paper by Harvard researchers focuses on.
The paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, by Dr. Charles M. Lieber and others at Harvard University describes how nanotechnology could help medicine, treat people with heart...
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