Health & Medicine

Plasticizer: potential hazard clarified

Research results in goldfish indicate a risk to the nervous system from bisphenols. (Image: Christian Wißler) Many plastic products contain bisphenols as plasticizers. ...

How stress thins hair

Growth and hair loss are based on processes in the area of ​​the hair roots. (Image: sefa ozel / iStock) It is well known...

An “interpretation center” in sight

Researchers have shown the functions of a “center” in our brain that enables complex mental performance. (Image: DNY59 iStock) What happens in the brain...

What makes our brains big

After five days, gorilla neural progenitor cells form a conical shape (right), while human cells (left) remain cylindrical. (Image: S.Benito-Kwiecinski / MRC LMB...

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...

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