Yesterday, October the 2th, The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base …
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New discovery about the coronal heating
A new international research published on The Astrophysical Journal Letters, with the Solar Orbiter/Metis and the Parker Solar Probe instruments, unveils the secrets of the Sun’s atmosphere. The first observational estimate of the heating rate …
Wildlife in the cities: are parrots conquering human places?
Talking about birds conquering human places the catastrophic picture of one famous Hitchcock’s film arises. But how far are we from this picturesque idea? Invasive species are one of the most serious threats to biodiversity, …
Blue Moon
The last full Moon of August, the 30th, was unusual. It was a blue moon. A blue moon is not blue in color. In fact, a blue moon does not look any different than a …
The bowhead whales show interesting DNA repair and anti-cancer mechanisms
Bowhead whale, or balaena mysticetus, “live two human lifetimes”. Scientific studies proved this old saying, dating a maximum lifespan exceeding over 200 years. But an increased number of cells and cell divisions in larger organisms …
What is Phytotherapy?
To speak about phytotherapy, two distinction are necessary: traditional phytotherapy and rational phytotherapy. Traditional phytotherapy is based exclusively on many years of experience and traditions as a remedy (traditional and folklore medicinal uses). Rational phytotherapy …