Life is a process of proteins interacting. What if new proteins never seen before are introduced?
Tag: Science
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.