Roundworms are the most commonly used animal model to investigate aging and methods to increase the…
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Human limb development “live”
Credit: Nature, 2023 Despite their importance in our daily lives, we do not give much importance…
Protein promiscuity is critical for nutrition and drug absorption
To eat, a cell needs to carry its main nutrients (sugars, lipids, and peptides –pieces of…
Drug combinations to combat antibiotic resistance
One of the biggest health threats in our current society is not related to a virus,…
A new imaging technique allows visualisation inside intact animals
One of the biggest challenges of medical imaging technologies is actually resolving the structures of interest,…
Obesity hinders brain recognition of nutrient signals
Recent research has demonstrated that obesity impairs the mechanisms that allow our brains to realise when…
Losing the Y chromosome, bad for males, good for cancer
In humans, biological sex is determined by the chromosomes X or Y. People having a Y…
A lifetime of mental illness accelerates ageing
Mental illness is associated with accelerated ageing, namely with shorter life span and ageing-related diseases such…
Organoid intelligence: brains acting as computers
While for long in neuroscience, computers were used to model brain function, organoid intelligence, a new…
A single gene holds the key to male contraception
So far, contraception has been practically exclusive to women. They are the ones not only responsible…