Oceanography
What Is Coral Bleaching?
Coral bleaching happens when stressed corals lose or expel much of the symbiotic algae living in their tissues. Because those algae provide color and a major share of th…
Tissue
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Health
What Is Cellular Senescence?
Cellular senescence is a durable state in which a cell stops dividing in response to stress or damage while remaining metabolically active and often changing the signals…
Biology
Flower revived from 32,000 year old seed
Scientists are trying to decode an ancient flower to understand why its seeds can
Health
Reasons for easy weight gain: Obesity has 'memory' and retains mechanisms in cells
Research reveals a molecular mechanism in fat tissue that makes people more likely to regain weight. The discovery helps explain
Science story
The first Vietnamese person to be honored with the TechWomen 100 award
Dr. Nguyen Thuy Ba Linh was honored at the TechWomen 100 award for her contributions to research and development of advanced materials technology for biomedical applicat…
Biology
Startling male crabs carrying eggs and the strange 'transition' process
Male blue crabs lose their reproductive function and develop ovarian tissue due to a notoriously cruel parasite.
Health
Successfully 'thawing' a frozen human brain for the first time
Scientists have finally found a way to freeze the human brain, then 'thaw' it while still maintaining normal function.
Health
Finding a new potential culprit of Alzheimer's disease
Analyzing donated human brain tissue, American scientists have found a new direction that could create a breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer's.
Animal world
Cloning of black-footed ferrets from cryopreserved tissue
Scientists have successfully cloned two black-footed ferrets from frozen tissue samples, to preserve this endangered animal.
Scientific application
'Rescuing' ginseng with tissue culture
The Areca ginseng plant contains many precious medicinal substances such as saponins, flavonoids... which have been successfully propagated by scientists using tissue cu…
Health
Finding the 'miracle drug' to reverse aging is surprisingly simple
Scientists from the Amsterdam University Medical Center have identified a special mechanism involving lipids that can reverse micro-aging.
Health
For the first time, Vietnam successfully separated a human liver
From the liver of a brain-dead young man, doctors split it in half and successfully transplanted it into two people, one child, one adult.
Scientific works
The world's largest frozen animal bank
San Diego's frozen zoo has just four researchers in charge of caring for more than 11,000 specimens, representing 1,300 different species and subspecies.
Cancer
Prospects for the treatment of patients with difficult-to-diagnose breast tumors
After performing genomic methylation in a group of patients, the team found that breast phyllodes tumors had unique methylation compared to normal breast tissue and that…
Health
Infections caused by flesh-eating bacteria spread at record levels in Japan
A rare, deadly flesh-eating bacterial infection is spreading at a record rate in Japan, leaving health officials baffled.