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I wish I was just talking about big kids or men that behave like children. Unfortunately, I am talking about something much more serious. So serious, it is lethal. I am talking about progeria, the genetic disease that turns kids into old men. Can you imagine a baby looking like an old man? Sure, if…
Like father like son. We have all heard it one time or another. The layman explanation to hereditary characters. Whether the cause is genetic inheritance or the effect of growing up in a certain environment, is quite something else. When talking about the origin of intelligence, there are always discussions. Even though there is undoubtedly…
Unless you’ve been sitting in a cave for the last couple of years, you have probably heard about the new great promise of gene therapy: the gene editing CRISPR system. This new addition to the molecular biology toolbox is groundbreaking for what it implies. It does not simply “force in” a healthy copy of whichever mutated…
Reprogramming is considered to be the potential medical miracle of the century, it should in principle help repair malfunctioning organs, or even replace them. But could it also be good for aging? Late last year an article showed for the first time how the same strategy used for cell reprogramming, that is, to return mature…
Once again, the scientific world has been stirred by the release of the name of this year’s Physiology and Medicine Nobel Award winner, which in this case has gone to the hands of a japanese researcher named Yoshinori Ohsumi, responsible for the discovery of something called the cell autophagy mechanism, which although probably unknown to…
Since we were kids (unless under the spell of a creationist education), we have been told that genetics is the reason for the colour of our eyes, our hair, our height and whether we look more like mum or dad. In the last few years, it might seem to many that gene association studies have…
This article was first published in mappingignorance.org Some weeks ago in Naukas.com I wrote about the wonderful latest video released by the team responsible for the Inner Life of a Cell which deals with the intricacies of cell trafficking in the inside of a neuron. Today I want to discuss an article recently published in…
Not that long ago I learned about a paper published by the lab of Björn Brems about the big fraud that impact factor in scientific publishing is when it comes to being an actual measure of how good science is. Not that it was news to many of us but it comes with a wealth…
Today’s post started as many do. As a discussion over coffee. These things DO happen. At least among nerds… Anyhoo, who has not ever encountered that situation where someone really impressed with something they learnt at school cannot really understand the possibility that in biology, as in so many other things in life, things are…