Life is a process of proteins interacting. What if new proteins never seen before are introduced?
Tag: Science
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FLASH OF LIGHT CAN HELP BRAIN LEARN THREE TIMES FASTER
A calm brain is a brain on alpha waves. A brain on alpha waves is ready to triple its learning speed, researchers at the University of Cambridge have found.
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ARTIFICIAL BLOOD IS ON THE WAY
A wide-ranging team of bioscientists and biotech firms are collaborating to concoct artificial blood that can be freeze-dried, then reconstituted by medics on the spot when people are injured in war, car accidents, and other traumas.
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RESEARCHERS SEE LINKS BETWEEN CANCER AND ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS
After finding correlations between cancer and a diet heavy in ultra-processed foods, researchers at Imperial College London are urging warning labels be put on the offending products.
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IT’S SCIENCE: TRAFFIC SMOG DAMAGES YOUR BRAIN
Breathing diesel exhaust while gridlocked in traffic can begin to de-wire your brain in two hours, a new study from the University of British Columbia found.
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“FOREVER CHEMICALS?” MAYBE NOT SO MUCH.
Perfluoroalkyls and polyfluoroalkyls, known as PFAs, are a family of more than 5,000 substances called “forever chemicals” because that’s how long they seem to last: their carbon and fluorine bonds are so strong as to seem unbreakable.
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TWEAK GENE, REJUVENATE HEART
An Italian study of centenarian superagers—people 100 years old or more who remain unusually healthy—found that a large proportion of them share a mutant gene that seems to keep hearts healthy as we age.
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PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN YOUR POCKET
Photosynthesis is plants’ gift to humanity: the process uses water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and liberate charged hydrogen particles to power the process by which plants store carbon.
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TOP TREND: SELF-SUFFICIENT ECONOMIES—TOMORROW’S FACTORY IS A 3D PRINTER
The array of lathes, cutters, and drill presses that have littered factory floors for more than a century is giving way to ranks of 3D printers humming 24 hours a day, turning out industrial parts from weather seals to molds and all manner of toys, art objects, car parts, shoes, with larger versions already making buildings.
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PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN BRAIN SYSTEM COULD BE KEY TO BRAIN HEALTH
Using new state-of-the-art techniques in brain imaging and neuromolecular biology, scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have discovered a previously unidentified component of the human brain that may be key to its health.