Music is not only a pleasure for our brains, it seems that learning it at an old age can help prevent grey matter loss. This non-medicinal intervention would be a very interesting way of delaying the onset of dementia and loss of cognitive abilities associated with aging. Continue reading in MappingIgnorance.org

About a week ago the journal Science showed in its cover an amazing image of a close up into the fly brain. This is the result of the combined effort of two research groups working on imaging, leading to a new method to imaging brains more amazing than ever. If you want to read more,…

If there is one worrisome fact about science in the here and now, it is this: the possibility that a huge amount of publications is to be retracted due to falsified or duplicated data. Scientific fraud is on the rise. The phenomenon is not new, there have been more than a few reports alarming of…

It is simply not possible to be forever young. That is a fact that we are all aware of, but the standing question is, can we delay somehow the aging process? From cosmetics companies, to pharmaceuticals, they are all invested in developing means to halt this natural process. In science, the most important goal is…

It is quite probable that you’ve heard from the benefits of yoghurt and other probacteria containing foods for your health, even more so it is probable you take them already regularly. What if these probiotics would also help maintain your biological integrity, that is, would prevent aging? This is not quite a random question, actually…