Health & Medicine

Mapping the vertebrate genomes

The genome of all vertebrates is to be deciphered (Image: ELIKA, Peterschreibermedia / iStock) The Vertebrate Genome Project has set itself the goal of sequencing...

Why Human Births Are Difficult

Pregnancy in humans is associated with special challenges: the pelvic floor must provide a support function, but still allow childbirth. (Image: damircudic /...

The sense of smell and memories – that’s what happens in our head

Certain scents trigger our memory, arouse emotions. The reason for this is the limbic system. (Image: pixabay.com, PublicDomainPictures) Smells often awaken certain memories...

On the trail of hemorrhoids

About one million DNA samples were analyzed by biochips for the study on the basics of hemorrhoidal disease. (Photo: Oliver Franke, Uni Kiel) Unpleasant...

Animals bred with built-in gene scissors

Taking blood from a chicken embryo for gene control. (Image: Andreas Heddergott / TUM) Genetically modified animals play a major role in biomedical...

Ever thicker from generation to generation

The trend towards more obesity continues. (Image: BrianAJackson / iStock) How does the body mass index (BMI) develop over the course of life? ...

Researchers create human-monkey chimeric embryos

This blastocyst is a chimera. (Image: Weizhi Ji / Kunming University of Science and Technology) Researchers have created chimeric human-monkey embryos from human stem...

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