Category: Health security in a nutshell
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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.…
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Losing and awaking heartbeat. What is sleep in real?
Photo: This model suggests that the physiological processes influenced by fluctuations in norepinephrine (NA) during NREM sleep—particularly those related to memory consolidation and glymphatic clearance—function best when these fluctuations occur approximately every 50 seconds. Authors: Anita Lüthi, Maiken Nedergaard. Sleeping is a kind of disengagement from the environment to restore released earlier energy. Fragmented sleep harms…
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Is it Earth’s destiny to sustain life? At least the one we know
By Marta Koblańska, February 16, 10:30, Photo: PIRO, Pixabay When a new life is arising, an old one is passing away. Ancient belief for life cycles may be true, as chemistry set up founds for environmental processes crucial for emerging lives on Earth. One of the greatest ever philosophers Baruch/Benedictus Spinoza claimed that Earth in…