Saturday, December 31, 2011

The most exciting scientific discoveries of 2011

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The renown journal Science has just announced that a clinical trial with a new treatment strategy for HIV patients is the most promising di...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Schizophrenics have too tightly wound DNA

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Schizophrenia  is described as a disease of the mind, and is often associated with people that have a split personality. However, it is act...

Brain uses 'glue cells' to form memories

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Scientists have long thought that we use neurons, the cells that make up the wiring of the brain, for all of the brain's functions. The...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Male-female attraction is governed by DNA

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Males and females are naturally attracted to each other in the animal world. This is necessary for procreation: while bacteria can replicat...

New mechanism reveals how body prevents cancer

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Scientists from the University of Zurich showed that the body possesses a repair mechanism that is supposed to prevent our cells to become...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Bacteria build a house inside our cells

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Bacteria appear to be able to hijack our cellular machinery in order to hide themselves inside our cells. They manipulate specific protein...
Sunday, December 25, 2011

Genes responsible for memory formation found

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We already possess a fair bit of knowledge about how memories are formed. It is known that brain structures such as the hippocampus are inv...