Healing with Venom
The honey bee does not only produce honey. It also produces beeswax, pollen, bee venom, gelee royale, and…
Cell
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Recyling Cellular Trash: A Micro-level Fasting Phenomenon
Recycling in the cell (autophagy) is important to generate energy and to produce new cellular units. What is…
Science Square (Issue 95)
The Brain’s GPS Jacobs J. et al. Direct recordings of grid-like neuronal activity in human spatial navigation. Nature…
Cancer: Cellular Anarchy
Cancer is a complex disease, claiming millions of lives every year. There is no single type of cancer.…
Nanomedicine: A Novel Paradigm to Medicine
Nowadays, we have been accustomed to hear “nano-something,” and we hardly pay any attention to what this really…
The Cell Phone-Brain Cancer Controversy
In recent years, people have been divided by conflicting studies about the risk of cancer posed by cell…
Why Is Cancer a Complex Disease?
The chaos theory, first introduced by Edward Lorentz, offers new horizons for economists, meteorologists, seismologist and scientists studying…
Organized Industry in Cells: ER
An important characteristic of animate structures in the micro-pages of nature unseen by the naked eye is being…
Guarding Queens of the Cellular Strongholds
Cells are the main building blocks of living organisms. Our body is composed of average one hundred trillion…
The Human Being in Numbers: Last Lesson for Peter
Dear Peter! Until today, almost all of your organs and systems introduced themselves and explained the great artistry…
The Unsolved Mystery: Symmetric Growth
The physical properties of our bodies are mostly determined during the embryonic stage. The development of this main…
Immune system at training in the gut
1- Immune system at training in the gut Microbes, in particular bacteria, are associated with many diseases, being…
Epidermal electronics
1- Epidermal electronics Original Article: Kim, D-H et al., Science 333, 838 (2011). We often see patients in…
Functional Art in the Nucleus: DNA
Volumes of books and hundreds of articles have been published about the structure and functions of DNA, since…
Rebuilding the Heart: Regeneration
Regeneration is the ability to restore and renew lost or damaged tissues or organs. The body is equipped…