Health
The 'happy' way of removing toxins that cause incurable disease in the brain
Scientists have for the first time observed a mysterious mechanism of garbage removal in the brain that can help people fight against incurable dementia.
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Nobel Prize in Biomedical 2019 for studying cell response when oxygen changes
The Nobel Committee on October 7 announced that the 2019 Biomedical Prize belonged to a group of three authors: William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L.…
Health
Precious substances from rice cause cancer cell death
Momilactones B extracted from white rice has an effect on human breast cancer cells that inhibit growth because of the low oxygen environment.
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What happens when a drone plunges into our heads?
An 18-month study investigated the mechanism and what would happen if a drone were to stab our head and face.
Biology
This is what happens when an ant bites you, no wonder it hurts so much
Have you ever been burned by ants? In fact, ants don't bite you with their teeth.
Cancer
Find a mechanism that makes cancer 'avoid' chemotherapy
A research team from Tulane University (USA) has identified the cannibalizing cells that cause cancer to undergo chemotherapy and recur.
Health
Find a way to 'disable' the HIV virus
A group of multinational scientists has announced they have discovered a group of compounds that can break down HIV virus molecules and render them inactive.
Biology
The defense mechanism of Japanese honey bees makes Asian corn bees away
What a natural wonder!
Biology
The predatory species has the most perfect trap mechanism: Super-long tassel, straight-edged 'mouth' full of acid bait
With an incomparable turn-on mechanism, ultra-long tentacles of the outer leaf layer, Drosera glanduligera is really self
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People know when to sleep?
The journal Nature published a new study showing that zebrafish sleeps like humans, thus deducing before human ancestors moved away from the marine environment, the slee…
Health
Found the key to opening the immortal door?
Scientists at the University of California at Davis (USA) have discovered the genetic mechanism of tissue regeneration in hydrothermal species living in freshwater, this…
Animal world
Can snakes bite themselves with its venom?
Snake snakes by venom? It may sound a bit paradoxical, but that can happen in practice.
Environment
50 lakes were discovered under the Greenland ice sheet
The discovery helps scientists better understand the mechanism of drainage under the ice layer, affecting the effects of global warming.
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Why are we vomiting?
Vomiting is a natural mechanism that helps purify toxic substances in the stomach to protect the body.
Animal world
Detecting the adaptive mechanism of crustaceans when hypoxic
Crustaceans belonging to the genus Tigriopus californicus, without gills to breathe or oxygen-bearing molecules like hemoglobin, have a new mechanism to fight low levels…