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Pain is highly personal. What to some doesn’t even deserve the name for others can be unbereable. Now, we just discovered a diffence in pain sensation: men and women have different pain receptors.
If you want to learn about what this means and what the research tells us, continue reading at MappingIgnorance.org
Many, many years ago,when I was still at university, during that horrible pre-exams period where everyone used to hide at home, I took to documentaries. The DiscoveryChannel Type. And I remember that one of them presented a “scientist” trying to predict the winner of a race based only in the relative ration of 2 fingers,…
Have you ever wondered how your ears can pick up the faintest whisper yet also handle loud music without damage? Scientists at Rockefeller University have achieved a remarkable feat: they kept a tiny piece of cochlea alive and working outside the body, allowing them to witness the hearing process in unprecedented detail. First, a technological…
A chimera was a mythological animal in the Antique Greece, but now a biological chimera is an animal with cells from different organisms. In recently published research in Science Advances, researchers show the result of the newest trial to introduce human cells into a mouse embryo. The last human mouse chimera. This was not the…
Two interesting stories have reached my nose and I had to bring them to you because it smells like there’s something juicy here to discuss. Let’s get started. It’s probably too soon to speak about the smell of spring, specially given that here in Munich we are still forcing our way out of winter BUT…
Good morning girls and boys, I really hope you have enjoyed breakfast (with or without brains, to your liking) I also hope you have seen the last line in the post where I kindly (wink wink) ask you to submit the post to OpenLab2013. What is that and why I ask? Bora Zivkovik explains it…
One of the problems those who work looking inside the body encounter every day is that there is just too much “flesh” around and finding the tree you’re looking for is difficult in such a dense forest. But, what if we could make all trees in the forest other than those we are interested in,…