A compound helps to rebuild myelin in multiple sclerosis patients
In the latest study on mice, a team observed a suitably modified flavonoid is able to stimulate the formation of new myelin.
In the latest study on mice, a team observed a suitably modified flavonoid is able to stimulate the formation of new myelin.
In-depth analyzes of metformin showed a strong difference between the sexes: female specimens react better, on males it does not work.
A team of scientists has greatly extended the time window in which a liver transplant can be stored while waiting to reach a patient. By modifying a protocol needed to preserve rodent livers, scientists observed results so promising that they were tested on a human liver for transplant. A donor liver had an average "life" of 9 hours, the new method brings this time to 27 hours. A lot more time to organize… Read more
The cloned kitten is the sign of China's exponential growth in genetic science.
The prospect of living forever exalts many, terrifies many. What weight does this aspiration and this fear have? The answer of 4 scientists.
Corneal transplantation from induced pluripotent cells (iPS) on July 27, then course and discharge on August 23. The patient has already regained her sight.
Founded in 2016, Juvenescence is the company that is creating a “longevism ecosystem” and raising a boatload of money. Here are his plans.
A study reveals: an obese person has a sense of taste so mortified that compulsively eating is one of the effects of the need to taste flavors.
The risk of the epidemic spreading is very high, but the future is clear: Ebola is already defeated, the cure works. Now on with the therapies.
Bioavionics integrates biological and electromechanical systems to see how their interaction will change our flight experiences.
The very good news is that in this case the adipogenesis process is irreversible. From breast cancer we will move on to some fat to shed.
Optogenetics has been used to cause visual hallucinations in laboratory mice, causing them to act as if the things they saw were real.
The drug shows efficacy on mice in preventing the development of melanoma, related tumors and related metastases. The melanoma vaccine is reality.
The reason for the "post-mortem" reactivation remains unknown: it is now clear that death is a much more complicated process than we thought.
The chameleon robot developed by the Chinese team mimics the characteristics of the reptile: it feels the context, changes its colors and moves accordingly.
With this intelligent tattoo, the team has created a transformative technology based on a decoration practice practiced from the mists of time.
The human-computer connection will be able to read and write a huge amount of information. In the Neuralink presentation the first, important vision.
It's a new paradigm: doctors can abandon gauze and bandages, instantly acting directly on the skin to repair wounds and burns.
The brain also hosts a microbiome, the group of bacteria that the body works with. It is an epochal turning point: it had always been considered a sterile area.
As reported in the journal Cell Metabolism, the protein circulating in mice (an enzyme called eNAMPT) plays a key role in the process that provides cells with energy. Over the years, the latter become less and less efficient in producing this "fuel" (called NAD) necessary for your health.
After the results of the 2016 animal tests, the results on humans also arrive from the revolutionary translational science applied to the study of Urolithin A (a metabolite obtained from pomegranate) on cellular and mitochondrial health: they were published in Nature Metabolism