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Scientists have questioned whether the female orgasm is a byproduct of male evolution

The doubts surrounding the female orgasm were almost resolved by a theory formulated in 2005. According to it, it was a by-product of male evolution: men had gained an important and useful orgasm for them, and women had also benefited from this evolutionary process.
07 September 2011, 21:16

Human IQ is directly related to infectious diseases

The mind is the most expensive thing in the world. Not in money, but in the currency common to all biology - energy. As one study showed, newborns spend almost 90% of the calories they receive on building and using the brain.
07 September 2011, 21:07

Swiss engineers have created technology to "mentally control" objects

Swiss engineers have built a robot to transmit the effect of telepresence, control of which requires only a network of electrodes connected to the user's head.
07 September 2011, 20:56

Scientists have created the world's first drug that slows the development of cataracts

Scientists who have created the world's first drug that slows the development of cataracts and delays their formation have been named among five finalists in a business project competition organised by the University of Queensland (Australia).
06 September 2011, 22:06

Sex hormones determine the body's future susceptibility to disease

Embryonic cells are very sensitive to the level of sex hormones; an imbalance in the direction of estrogens or testosterone in the early stages of development can manifest itself not only in harmless anatomical features, but also in the future predisposition of the body to various diseases.
06 September 2011, 21:41

Scientists have identified a leukemia gene

The likelihood of developing leukemia or myelodysplastic syndromes can be predicted by the presence or absence of mutations in the GATA2 gene.
05 September 2011, 20:33

A strain of bacteria from the genus clostridium has been created that destroys cancer cells

According to the new method, a soil bacterium from the genus Clostridium will search for cancerous growths in the human body: having settled in a tumor, it will begin to synthesize an enzyme that converts an inactive antitumor drug into an active killer of cancer cells.
05 September 2011, 20:30

Moderate consumption of walnuts reduces the risk of breast cancer

Scientists from Marshall University (USA) have found that the risk of breast cancer is significantly reduced when the usual diet contains a moderate amount of walnuts. However, so far this has only been established for mice.

04 September 2011, 17:28

Stem cells have been discovered that trigger hair growth

Researchers at Yale University (USA) have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth. The discovery could lead to the development of fundamentally new treatments for baldness.
04 September 2011, 17:24

Scientists have built a "flavor map" of the brain

Taste sensations in our brain are not controlled by a complex of multi-profile neurons, as was previously believed, but by a set of clusters of nerve cells responsible for a particular taste.
02 September 2011, 23:13

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