Health & Medicine

Lack of sleep increases the risk of Covid-19

Exhaustion, stress and lack of sleep weaken the immune system. (Image: Charday Penn / iStock) Those who work in the health sector during the...

New “aging clock” developed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SSxrgq_Nyg Researchers have developed a measurement method that can determine the biological age of an organism. This could provide new insights into how the...

Artificially created early stages of human embryos

Color-tagged blastoids grown from skin cells (Image: Monash University) For the first time, researchers in the laboratory have created so-called blastoids - cell structures that...

Weeping lacrimal glands from the laboratory

Cross-section through the lacrimal organoid of a mouse. (Image: Yorick Post / Hubrecht Institute) In order to keep our eyes moist and to protect...

Vaccination strategies: can the second dose be delayed?

The corona vaccine is still in short supply. (Image: Ridofranz / iStock) How can the existing vaccines against Sars-CoV-2 be used most effectively? ...

Placenta as a garbage dump for genetic defects

The placenta nourishes the embryo, but also enriches mutations. (Image: magicmine / iStock) The placenta, like the embryo, arises from the fertilized egg cell,...

Covid-19 risk increases with pollen count

Birch pollen in spring. (Image: Gregory_DUBUS / iStock) The weather and our behavior are not the only influencing factors for a coronavirus infection: The...

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