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Published on
3/12/2010 de Silviu Apostol, PhD student
in categories: Science communication,Biology,Science and education,Personalia,Science and philosophy,Science and religion
Although the theory of evolution is widely accepted in science,
whether it comes to biology, medicine or psychology, public opinion
still holds some prejudices and imprecisions related to this
process. These are mainly caused by philosophical and religious
views of the world, but sometimes it amounts to an inaccurate
teaching of the theory of evolution or reflecting it in the media.
On the one hand, the cause may be the ignorance, but on the other
hand, there are certain misunderstandings. Some of it will be
discussed next.
Published on
10/2/2009 de Sotira Trifourki, Manchester, UK
in categories: Biology,Chemistry,Physics
Disarming the flu virus has become a key strategy in the battle
against the flu. Scientists in Grenoble in France have made a
breakthrough in research into how the virus attacks the human
body. Powerful X-ray imaging has enabled them to learn more
about its main weapon - a so called "knife" used by the
virus to access and hijack human proteins which it needs to
reproduce. Deprive the virus of its knife and the battle is won so
the theory goes.
Published on
3/17/2009 de Gabriella Ficz, Cambridge, UK
in categories: Science communication,Biology,Chemistry,Genetics,Medicine,Personalia
It has always been known that a good mother-child contact leads
to healthier and happier babies and adults. But what would happen
if we knew that early life nurturing affects our genes and can
leave life long imprints in our genome? This is a research focus of
Patrick McGowan and his colleagues at the Douglas Mental Health
University Institute in Montreal, Canada, who found that suicide
victims with a history of childhood abuse are more prone to carry
stable chemical modification on their DNA that will cause impaired
response to stress later in life, published in a recent volume of
Nature Neuroscience (McGowan et al., 2009).