Category: Medicine in a nutshell
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What influences cognition? The exchange in purine bases and amino acids in the brain.
Photo: Adenine structure, one of the purine bases, specifically connects to thymine via hydrogen bonding in DNA and uracyl in RNA, as discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick in the 50s. Credit:kropekk_pl Of the about 20,000 metabolites discovered so far in human blood serum, over 1,300 and 140 lipids have been observed to profile the brain’s uptake and…
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Why does mitochondrial disruption cost so much?
Photo: Mitochondrium, SkieTheAce, Pixabay Does evolution know the paths of the past and future? That’s possible according to new research published in ,,Cell”. How? By tracking the transport of signals and nutrients inside a cell. The mitochondrion is a cell organelle with a separate from the cell nucleus genetic material inherited only from a female…
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Why do women put on weight during pregnancy? Mouse example
Photo: Sunflower, Joshrowe, Pixabay Why do women gain more weight during pregnancy than the size of the fetus? Because of small intestine growth apart from the growing off-spring. Although pregnancy is a natural stage for females and generally does not require specific treatment if both the mother and child are healthy, the bodies of many…
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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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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…