“Our results indicate that response time slowing begins as early as age 20, but this slowing was attributable to increases in decision caution and to slower non-decisional processes, rather than to differences in mental speed.” | learn more
“From the beginning we are introduced to a menagerie that perches in the gray area between alive and not-alive: creatures like tardigrades and nematodes that can reemerge from cryptobiosis with the touch of water, pythons whose basal metabolic rates can […]
“A new study has shown how targeting an enzyme within fat cells can alter sensitivity to leptin and in turn drive rapid weight loss in obese mice, while also improving overall metabolic health.” | learn more
“The new substance is the result of a feat thought to be impossible: polymerizing a material in two dimensions.” | learn more
“Superabsorption had yet to be demonstrated on a scale large enough to build quantum batteries, but the new study has now managed just that.” | learn more
Researchers have known this for a while. But in this latest study, they also noticed concurrent changes in brain activity and, interestingly, how frequently readers sigh! | learn more
Wow! Can’t say if this will ever work in humans, but until recently it didn’t work in African clawed frogs. “The African clawed frog, which is naturally unable to regenerate its limbs, was treated with the drugs for just 24 […]
I’m not sure I totally buy the author’s headline, but this is certainly a track companies pursue for a reason. The economics of selling plain ol’ mushrooms don’t seem as attractive as pharma reimbursed by health insurance. And maybe they’ll […]
“A new study has uncovered a previously unknown hairpin-like structure within this protein that proved critical to an antibody response seen in mice, with an engineered version of the protein fragment also laying the groundwork for a vaccine against the […]
“UConn bioengineers successfully regrew cartilage in a rabbit’s knee, a promising hop toward healing joints in humans, they report in the January 12 issue of Science Translational Medicine.” | learn more