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Tick Tock: Circadian Clock
... in almost every cell in the body. So each organ has its own clock, which sets the timing of the physiological rhythms ... the body's clocks, in all of the other tissues, set their own watches by. So what sets the master clock? This is ... other cell sees these signals and uses them to keep its own clock in check. This is great for keeping the body ...
Time to Unplug: A Call for Digital Minimalism
... stories from around the world, forcing us to question our own patterns of behaviour, lifestyle and values. The question ... weight. According to Ofcom 1 , 94% of British adults own a mobile phone, of which 75% are smartphones. And ... online world, but what about those on our own and the effects they have on our sense of self? As social ...
Human 'black box’ provides insight into decision-making
... of their head and every glance is recorded -- from their own perspective. Dr Sophie Le Bellu, a Marie ... by other techniques'. The subcam is designed by the team's own research technicians as it requires higher-level ... rate) and gesturing. Playing back footage from their own point of view evokes far more detailed memories than ...
Why do birds flock and fish shoal?
... pigeon's ear. So how do they perceive anything but their own flapping, for example an approaching hawk? What is the ... may also help an individual animal to handle its own ISOL, increasing the perception of crucial signals such ... problems. Birds going into glide flight will reduce their own noise for a while; a group of water fowls that splash ...
DNA sequencing in the palm of your hand
... has been improved tremendously over the course of your own lifetime. I wouldn’t be surprised if computers came to ... complete human genome, the three billion bases of our own genetic code, were read. This mammoth project required 13 ... to monitor the Zika epidemic in Brazil. The kids had their own ideas: “I would go to the jungle because there’s ...
The CytoMatrix: Reloaded
... the body, stem cells grown on the Cytomatrix secrete their own growth factors which means they can multiply, producing 4 ... cell transplant but have no available stem cells of their own". The other major benefit of establishing a pool of your own cells is that, rather than using stem cells only as a ...
Don't Worry, be Happy!
... of Independence While happiness itself is sought for its own sake, every other goal -- health, beauty, money, or power ... There are plenty of miserable millionaires. In my own case I have often found an inverse correlation between my ... that are truly enjoyable are those that we do for their own sake; because they are intrinsically, not extrinsically, ...
Infection-fighting Eggs
... protect their offspring by siphoning off some of their own antibodies and adding of them to the foetal circulation ... recognises the horse proteins as foreign and mounts its own, occasionally overzealous response. Human antibodies bind ... immune system takes at least five days to produce its own antibodies. For some infections this is too long. Certain ...
The Hygiene Hypothesis, Part 3. Are Parasitic Worms Friend or Foe?
... aggressive or inappropriate responses and damages our own tissues in the process. We also learned how helminths ... getting out of hand and causing excessive damage to our own tissues. Mechanisms for this 'immune regulation' include ... that actively attempt to suppress it, purely to aid their own survival. Now, what happens when many of these infectious ...
Are Covid-19 contact apps data safe?
... and work in a decentralised manner: you hold your own data at all times and it cannot be used for any data ... the other app users. All of the phones then search their own records to see if they have seen Bob’s anonymised ID before. Therefore, in this scheme, each person’s own records of which devices they have encountered before are ...
Artificial pancreases - lab grown and DIY
... of the diabetes community came together to build their own solution – in something called a ‘Do-it-Yourself ... community, have made the instructions for building your own DIYAPS open source so that anyone can make one. Dr ... systems are still experimental and those who build their own are doing so at their own risk. ‘There's no customer ...
Why can't we tickle ourselves?
... In 2003, a study showed that crickets perceive their own chirps as quieter than those of other crickets. Having ... ownership, so that we know whether a touch comes from our own moving fingers, say, or some foreign object. ... of tickling in the somatosensory cortex when it is our own fingers, not someone else’s, at work. Dr Kilteni’s ...
Bacteria seeking Asylum...
... And why do we fight back so violently to protect our own interests? Of course, being more scientific than ... army will not give us a chance and eagerly sacrifices its own cells to destroy us. The 'Acquired' branch of your Immune ... will wage a war that is as vicious and as ruthless as your own... It's funny how the microscopic world of bacteria and ...
Chronotherapeutics
... of a planet - it is part our cells, encoded in our own DNA... It turns out that almost every cell, be it bacterial, human, in the skin, liver or brain has its own 24 hour "circadian" rhythm. That is, a proportion of the ...
Science of Love - Cupid's Chemistry
... in fact, three distinct stages of love; each with their own characteristic emotional profile and scientific ... seek out somebody with an immune system different to our own. Additionally, it is important to find a mate with whose genes are also similar enough to our own to confer a tried and tested immune system. Is this the ...
The Science of Parasites
... cuckoo for example, which, seemingly too lazy to rear its own young, lays its egg in another bird's nest. When you look ... ploys, they evolve to develop strategies of their own to avoid being made a fool of in future. From generation ... adept at spotting intruders' eggs amongst their own precious offspring. In response the cuckoo has evolved ...
Could we farm out pest control to insects?
... the husbandry skills of Ambrosia beetles, which grow their own food source - fungus - and are the only farming insects ... Biedermann. 'But Ambrosia beetles have been growing their own food for over 30 million years. Whatever tricks they once ...
Where is the HIV vaccine?
... genetic makeup represents only 0.0003 % the size of our own genome? Why is the HIV problem such a tough nut to crack? ... as a short sequence of genetic code sequestered within our own DNA. Critically though, it can re-emerge from this ... and answers, it is not difficult to imagine how our own expectations could let us down. It is sometimes difficult ...
The Art & Science of Homebrewing
... brew master to ferment the finest beers in your own home. A good brewer needs to know the proper method of ... basic scientific understanding to get started. Making your own beer requires that you seek balance in the recipe and ... get used to particular recipes and want to make them your own. You ask questions such as, “How much coriander should ...
Studying walking to understand cerebral palsy
... in the Netherlands. ‘The ability to walk on your own comes later.’ Dr Dominici and her team are using the ... the muscular and brain power required to walk on their own for a project called Learn2Walk. In a paper published in ...
Coronavirus: sex differences in the spotlight
... that can accommodate a potential foreign body within our own. Overall, women also seem to have a somewhat stronger ... there is no infection and you're actually attacking your own body, then it is not exactly ideal. We can think about ...
What is the purpose of sexual reproduction ?
... No mess, no fuss, just pure transmission of your own genetic material! Many primitive animals do it every day. ... in the gene pool allowing the transmission of 50% your own and 50% your partner's genes to your young. The point of ... of young we increase the chances of propagating our own genes successfully. What's Love got to do with it? OK. ...
Should Carbohydrate Tolerance Determine Our Diet?
... the body to a state where it becomes resistant to its own insulin, because the levels of this hormone are ... insulin resistance, we need a greater understanding of our own carbohydrate tolerances. The American Medical ... history may provide more substantial clues regarding your own susceptibility to insulin resistance. If you have ...
Seeing Red
... he himself already has this genitive relationship to his own actions: he is the author of everything he does. So, will ... the Martian understand this? Presumably nothing in his own direct experience corresponds to what we have just ... different sense organs. And in an earlier book I drew my own musical analogy, and proposed that each type of sense ...
Finding a Genetic Diagnosis
... energy that cells need to function. They also carry their own DNA sequences that code for key components that keep the ... rainy day in Ely, Claire and I meet to talk about our own very different experiences of genetic disease (some of ... I was told not to worry, that he’d get there in his own time and I was a first time mum and bound to worry. But ...