Category: Life sciences

Life Sciences for July, August, September (80aH*) :
   – Synthetic chromosomes to better understand how our DNA works,
   – Pancreatic cells still functioning and producing insulin,
   – The hemifusome produces spherical vesicles that envelop different types of cellular materials,
   – The brain acts like an orchestra conductor

Life Sciences for September & October (79aH*) :
   – This Benjamin-Button-like jellyfish can age in reverse,
   – A specific neural circuit plays a central role in the placebo effect,
   – Severely brain injured patients may show consciousness when assessed properly

Life Sciences for July & August (79aH*) :
   – Fasting to boost the immune system,
   – Neural connections’ have huge capacities,
   – CHNOPS elements composes about 97% of the human body

Life Sciences for May & June (78aH*) :
   – Reproducing the sensation of flexibility,
   – Strongly connected neurons thanks to axons,
   – Restoring sensation and movement with red light,
   – Cerebellum controls movements, regulates complex social and emotional behaviors

Life Sciences for March & April (78aH*) :
   – Glucocorticoids released during chronic stress & body’s immunity,
   – Gene therapy to improve a boy’s hearing,
   – A suspension of gold nanocrystals to help with sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease,
   – A protein complex, CRL5-SPSB3, to triggering the immune response,
   – Millions of nerve cells can collectively distinguish a billion distinct odors,
   – Bumblebees have demonstrated a level of collective intelligence

Life Sciences for January & February (78aH*) :
   – Gene therapy to treat myotubular myopathy,
   – 4% of the Icelandic population carry a genotype linked to serious illness,
   – Salted water is more complex than thought,
   – The cytoplasmic channel regulates sperm maturation

Life Sciences for November & December (78aH*) :
   – Protists are organisms that have frequent changes to the genetic code,
   – A yeast produced with 50% synthetic DNA,
   – Controlling transposons and extending lifespan,
   – Casgevy’s therapeutic process,
   – Spinal implant helps restore mobility,
   – World-First Human Brain Atlas Reveals New Cell Types

Life Sciences for September & October (78aH*) :
   – An innovative technique to improve stem cells’ quality,
   – The crucial role of an intestine molecule,
   – Reconstruct neuronal wiring inside a mouse brain

Life Sciences for July & August (78aH*) :
   – Significant differences appear in the epigenetic code of circulating DNA,
   – Creating animals capable of reproducing by parthenogenesis,
   – Waking up the genome of a newly fertilized egg,
   – Brain signals linked to chronic pain and those associated with acute pain,
   – Edit the genome of human cells,
   – A complex network of cell into human body

Life Sciences for May & June (77aH*) :
   – Observe real-time production of cellular secretions,
   – The reference genome for the human species,
   – Chromosomal processes are essential ,
   – Plants emit sounds that can be detected,
   – Synthetic human embryos