Author: Marta Koblanska
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Why is fentanyl so perfect cure for increasing pain grade?
Photo: Rowan berry, chulmin1700, Pixabay Fentanyl, a currently popular opioid, effectively relieves pain by enhancing neuronal responses in selected brain pathways, according to a new study published in Neuron. Pain grades have been classified by the World Health Organization in 1986 as more and more humans started to get cancer. The author of the first…
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Are wind farms causing harm to cognitive functioning? Balancing between health and clean energy
Wind turbine, Photo: Viniane6276, Pixabay Wind farms are a substantial source of clean energy needed for green transformation. Is the noise they produce harmful for people and nature or not? Clean energy from various renewables may decrease dependence on fossil fuels as a major energy course. There are several ways to get the so-called green…
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What makes aging more friendly? X chromosome
Photo: Blueberries, congerdesign, Pixabay The later activation of the X chromosome may enhance cognitive function, which could partly explain why women tend to have longer lifespans. Each of us inherits our genetic background from our parents, grandparents, and even distant ancestors that we may have forgotten. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, with one set…
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Plant protection is the key to sustaining life. Singapore’s example
Photo: The Singapore General Hospital Bicentennial Garden, authors: Abner Herbert Lim, Bin Tean Teh Genomic gardens of plants necessary to cure impaired people may be the only way to secure biodiversity, as urbanization and climate change lead to green destruction. Modern medicine would not have reached the level of today’s advancement without plants. They have been…
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Paradox of evolution. What can capture and unleash us from Earth?
Photo: Molecules, wastedgeneration, Pixabay A tiny insertion of a highly charged, binding potential helix into the space of RNA after the prokaryote code was lost or removed could change the direction of life’s evolution. RNA is a single-strand of ribonucleic acid, which is more primordial to DNA built with two strands and slightly different bases.…