Medicine

Space research has often encountered quite serious problems when trying to reproduce the same conditions on Earth in zero gravity. One of the most insurmountable difficulties was that linked to 'space sex'. There is a whole series of cases on the subject: the results are not satisfactory. Take a look at our ...

It's a good day if only for the dogs: Jasper, a little dachshund paralyzed by an accident, responded magnificently to a 6-month treatment based on stem cells: the results are not far from what a little. long ago could be described ...

The efforts that technology has put in place to improve our health conditions and our life expectancy seem to be preparing for the big leap, causing a substantial transformation in the way we treat ourselves and stay healthy for a long time. Here are what changes should be prepared for, and if ...

Recent tests on obese monkeys show an 11% reduction in body weight after a few applications. The drug works in totally different ways than other such discoveries, which try to replace or substitute the ways in which humans eat, altering the sense of appetite or ...

Artificial blood could soon become a reality thanks to the first successful human transfusion. Dr. Luc Douay of the Parisian University 'Pierre et Marie Curie' extracted stem cells from bone marrow and 'encouraged' them to grow and transform into blood cells by administering a cocktail of factors ...

A group of British neuroscientists has discovered that it is possible to establish a two-way 'conversation' with people in a permanent vegetative state, thanks to a device already present everywhere that can read their brain activity. Researchers have noted that some individuals in this state are able to understand ...

Have you always dreamed of having a beautiful pair of blue eyes, but were you born with dark eyes? A Californian doctor has patented and developed a method that can change dark eyes to blue (forever) in just 20 seconds. How does Lumineyes work? Some images of the Lumineyes application ...

If you're still not convinced that stem cells are the future of medicine, get this: A group of Japanese researchers used stem cells to synthesize a new, fully functional organ in the laboratory, starting from ZERO. This is the research team of the RIKEN Center for the ...

As we all know there is a phase in the development of this pathology that renders its course deadly: when cancer cells multiply and spread to other organs, creating metastases, it is almost impossible to face and win the battle for the survival of a patient. Recent studies by ...

Time passes, technologies and methods improve, and things that just seemed impossible are surprisingly at hand: it is appropriate to say, given the incredible new bionic arm born from the collaboration between the American universities of Pittsburgh and John Hopkins. It is a leap ...