Fresh out of a news release by Lilly - hope for Alzheimer patients for a new tool to help slow down the disease. A 140-year-old pharma company in the USA, announced exciting new data on their phase 3 study…
A molecule for eternal childhood
A new research led by UCL and the University of Milan finds a molecule important in blood vessel formation and brain wiring is also essential for the onset of puberty. From scientific point of view,…
Dinosaurs live again?
Can we clone dinosaurs? Can we revive the long gone beasts and put them in theme parks? Have the time of "Jurassic world" arrived? A Nature letters publication called "Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China…
Smartphones to boost cancer diagnostics
Smartphones are becoming smarter by the day! Nowadays, we can use smartphone technology for so much more than just staying in touch - social activities, navigation, planning, computing, programming, analysis of data, and now -…
The biology of traffic jams and the pseudo-evolved…
Is Homo sapiens the higher species? Is complexity always superior? Why are ants better society that humans? A group of researchers published in Physical Review Letters an article on trafficking in ant trails, comparing it to human highways based…
"Growing Old Without Disease" or the Path to…
Not long ago an article was published in The Wall Street Journal on recent attempts against ageing or rather - diseases related to ageing. Many diseases are developing during the later stages of our lives as…
"Batman begins" or the Shape Memory Polymers
Remember in the movie "Batman begins" the super cool memory shape cape he had? If you don't remember that, then may be you should revise the movie, but just to give you a clue -…
What were they thinking when they published that!?
Some research I would love to be part of, some - not so much. You might find some of these funny, but they were all dead serious about their research when they were conducting and…
Liberation day, Bulgarian scientists and their discoveries
Bulgarian science might be on the slower end of productivity at the moment, and it is so for objective, although not excusable reasons. But it has not always been so. In the 20th century many bulgarian scientists were…
The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful
Scientists can be very full of themselves (or rather of their own research topic) creatures. I consider myself a scientist (among other things). So I suppose I need to live up to the expectations?! Hence,…
