Health & Medicine

Lifespan: 130 years are possible

The limit of life expectancy is shifting further back. (Image: ivanastar / iStock) Advances in medicine and technology enable us humans to live to...

Active ingredient from chestnut leaves against MRSA

Leaves and flowers of the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa). (Image: Quave Lab) The leaves of the European sweet chestnut are considered a traditional remedy...

Corona monitoring in wastewater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbczxvT8Cx4 German researchers are exploring the possibility of determining the degree of infection of the population with Sars-CoV-2 through genetic traces of the viruses in...

Plague infection 5000 years ago

This jaw belonged to a man who probably succumbed to an infection with Yersinia pestis around 5,000 years ago. (Photo: Dominik Göldner, BGAEU,...

Astronauts cut with gene scissors

NASA astronaut Christina Kock performing the experimental procedure on board the International Space Station. (Image: Sebastian Kraves) The famous CRISPR / Cas9 technology has...

Self-dissolving pacemaker

Illustration of the transient pacemaker on the heart. (Image: Northwestern University / George Washington University) No further intervention necessary: ​​If the heart only needs...

New genes at risk for breast cancer identified

Breast cancer (Image: Lars Neumann / iStock) If many women in a family develop breast or ovarian cancer, genetic tests can clarify whether the risk...

More heart attacks from World Cup

Cheering football fans. (Image: efenzi / iStock) Major sporting events such as a soccer World Cup sweep millions of people away - and the...

Corona antibodies as a drug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mUeE7b7z7c German researchers isolate antibodies from the blood of recovered persons that attack the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This could lead to the development of drugs...

How catchy tunes disturb our sleep

Subject in the musical sleep test. (Image: Robert Rogers / Baylor University) Many people listen to music before falling asleep to help them relax....

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