The fat cells of obese people seem to have a limit on the amount of fat that are capable of storing. According to new research funded in part by the EU, the fat cells of obese people seem to have a limit on the amount of fat that are capable of storing. Once this limit [...]
Some scientists have revealed that the biological clocks of plants help them to react to changes linked to sunrise and sunset and day length. These results shed new light on how living things react to the changing rhythms of daylight and may help us better understand the effects of jetlag and shift work. The results [...]
One study shows the existence of a genetic link between the predominantly manual, cerebral asymmetry and reading skills. The recent genetic mapping of a sample of children with dyslexia made it possible to clarify the relationship between the dominance of the Manual, or the tendency to use one hand rather than the other, and language [...]
Scientists from the University of Aarhus (Denmark), together with microbiologists at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (JLU) has managed to produce palladium nanoparticles with biological support. Palladium is a precious metal in high demand. It is used inter alia as a catalyst in the chemical industry and the automotive industry in catalytic converters and fuel cells. The [...]
In an interview with Cinco Dias Rafael Camacho, general director of the Genome Spain Foundation predicts that “biotechnology will be the engine that moves the world in the next century. It explains that the field of biotechnology opens up new business prospects in the sense of serving as a lever and economic boost to the [...]
Researchers at the National Research Council , led by Joan Grimalt, have found a new procedure to detect up to 200 compounds in a small polluted blood sample. The pollutants detected are the organochlorine type (such as DDT ) or brominated . They are toxic and enter the body through the diet , so their [...]
