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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…
There’s many ways to recognize a scientist and maybe surprisingly to some, the lab coat is not the most obvious, neither is the bad hair nor the distracted look, as the topic falsely assumes. In fact, the easier way to recognise them is that while having a beer -not necessarily the fourth one- they are…
Long time no see…Sorry I haven’t posted anything in english for quite a while but I have a perfect excuse: I was on holidays. In Paradise aka Cuba. While in there I had time to catch up with sleep, recharge my vitamin D reservoirs for the winter and taste a bit (only a bit 😉…
Even cavemen were scientists. Thanks to their curiosity we managed to discover fire, to invent the wheel and develop all those tools that in time lead us to the fancy cars, computers and phones we use today. But today it might happen that we have to go back to playing with stones and sticks, at…
Even though in fairy tales -and in Hollywood movies- it seems love’s forever and monogamy is what’s natural, some time ago prairie voles showed us that in fact it depends, at least partly, of a variant in the vasopressin gene, this is a hormone that can act as a neuropeptide as well, and that way…
In case you haven’t noticed yet, I am in love with photography and today thanks to Croig Gagnon and Frank Schott I bring you the results of an amazing project. A look into the human body as you have never seen before together with a story, a curious one to say the least… The project’s…
That humans are social creatures is nothing new. That’s one of the few things in which both at philosophy and biology class they agreed. Among other things because it is with us all through evolution , ever since our cousins the primates; what seemed impossible up to now was to extend this social capacities beyond…
Someday I was asked why someone’s most creative time was right before going to sleep. When asked, I remembered having read about the topic of when are the most creative moments in the day for some people. I also remembered that creativity gets potentiated the more our prefrontal cortex (a brain area related to conscious…
Politics slips into everything. From the moment you turn on the TV at home to the minute you open the newspaper to read while you drink your morning coffee and even here, in the lab when it comes the time to discuss budgets and project proposals. But it is not just the good-ol’ politics that…
One of the most amazing things of working in science and that my job has to do with imaging and big fancy microscopes is the unbelievable beauty that -sometimes- can be found underneath our data. Precisely for that reason, there are plenty of scientific photo contest around the world, and I haven’t yet met a…