If artificial meat can be perfected, the expensive process will migrate to the meat processing plants of the future, where the same thing will be done faster and cheaper.
Gut bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus interfere with the behavior and brain physiology of mice, making their hosts more cold-blooded, courageous and stress-resistant.
Mating of Neanderthals with representatives of other groups of ancient people played an important role in the formation of the immune system of modern humans, American scientists report in an article published in the journal Science.
Cancer is the world's leading cause of death, killing more than seven million people each year. Cancer can affect any part of the body, and survival rates vary depending on the type of cancer and where the patient lives.
The hormone calcitonin greatly worsens the prognosis of patients with some types of cancer. Scientists believe that the level of calcitonin can be reduced by switching the enzyme that activates it to another hormone - oxytocin, which is associated with a feeling of sexual pleasure and satisfaction.
Doctors may soon be able to hear more than just wheezing in the lungs: British scientists are developing a method that will allow them to detect diseased tissue in the body using sounding liposomes.
Scientists from Lund University (Sweden) have discovered a new function of vitamin C: it is capable of dissolving toxic protein deposits that form in the brain during Alzheimer's disease.
It was generally accepted that the brain reaches the necessary "synaptic equilibrium" by the age of 20. But it turned out that this age is greatly underestimated. A group of neurophysiologists from the universities of Zagreb (Croatia) and Yale (USA) studied the structure of the prefrontal cortex in 32 people
