Health & Medicine

Man, woman – or …

Questioning look at the issue of gender. (Image: Devenorr / iStock) Which is actually the “stronger” gender and how clear is the distinction between...

A lack of oxygen in the tumor promotes metastasis

Cancer cells tend to spread when there is a lack of oxygen. (Image: peterschreiber.media/ iStock) Tumors are often much more poorly supplied with oxygen...

New insights into gene regulation

The regulation of our genes shapes the body and health. (Image: svisio / iStock) Since 2010, an international research team in the Genotype-Tissue Expression...

Language: Children use both hemispheres

In children, language activation is evident in the right hemisphere of the brain (below) in addition to the left (above). Right-sided activity then...

Gattaca: Scientific Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_NON7fHsQQ A society that is characterized by DNA analysis and genetic manipulation: To what extent we have come closer to the future vision of the...

Covid-19 risk groups: Background information

The older COVID-19 patients are, the more immune cells they develop to target the virus. However, fewer and fewer of these T helper...

Brain organoid with a network capable of learning

Bioengineered Neuronal Organoid (BENO) and enlargement of its neural network structure (right) (Image: Zafeiriou et al./ Nature Communications 11, 3791) The brain is our most...

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