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How do Chemicals in the Environment affect Fertility?
... do is to alter how the body’s endogenous hormones, our own hormones, our own endocrine system works. So, an example would be something ... have in our body, there might be a knock-on effect to our own physiology, the way our body works. Because of exposure ...
Baffled: Crickets use tools to boost their song
... by the females who can use them to identify males of their own species from other males, and find the males.These tree ... aid that helps them be louder than they would be on their own. Chris - Really; what do they do? Natasha - They make a ... will be four times as loud as a cricket that’s on its own. Chris - This completely changes our view of insects, ...
Meningitis in Disguise
... by coating themselves in a protein that circulates in our own blood, called factor H. This protein is a very important part of how we regulate our own immune response in that we've got one arm of our immune ... factor H to coat the bacterium in factor H: the way our own cells have done but by using a very different chemistry ...
Plant parasite matchmakers
... So then, why would the parasite do that—why kill its own host—unless it helps facilitate its own spread before the plant senesces and dies? Chris – Do ... insect sex-specific responses to manipulate plants for its own spread. Chris – And it’s also manipulating the ...
Which plants are best for bees?
... bees but there are some plants that actually have their own neurotoxins, and rhododendron that invasive plant that ... in some of our forests and uplands actually has its own psychoactive neurotoxins called grayanotoxins. They have their very own Novichok which are able to poison, well, people who eat ...
Pandemic vs Endemic: What's the difference?
... can't exist really without living things to use for their own destruction. Julia - Sean has also written in to ask ... living things are able to grow and reproduce on their own and that is where I draw the line. Julia - In the UK, ... to an 'endemic'. What does that mean? Raven - In my own words, an 'endemic' means that it is going to move from ...
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 ...
Why do humans have such a variety of appearances?
... to be able to recognise people who are part of your own group, even your own family. There are very special regions of the brain for ... recognise the facial differences there as you do in your own group. So that's one thing, we don't necessarily know how ...
Gene therapy for Huntington's Disease?
... are based on RNA interference which uses the body's own small RNA silencing system. Every cell in our bodies has ... that are based on entering search queries into the cell's own searching machinery and then directing it to a desired ... I told you about. So, we sort of hijack the cell's own machinery to try to turn off this disease gene. Now, that ...
How to avoid serious egg fraud
... - is a key feature of animal societies as well as our own. Far from being restricted to large-brained primates like ... of unsuspecting hosts, who then raise the chick as their own, the most well known example being the cuckoo [2]. If ... The risk of not detecting an extra egg, or expelling your own egg by mistake, is high. For species regularly targeted ...
The snapdragon's tale
... discovered about that world. Kat - So in terms of your own work, what is your passion? What is your genetic ... or in a bud of a flower can turn themselves on their own into amazing structures. Not just humans but plants, ... how to do that? The plant has to do that somehow on its own. So, when you put a seed into the garden and that turns ...
Psychedelic microdoses and mood disorders
... using a self-blinding strategy, where users created their own placebo doses and didn’t know what they were taking ... the method self-blinding because you are blinded to your own drug condition. Eva - I see, so were they noting down how ... psychological tests. How you feel and you think about your own wellbeing counts a lot for the self-reported ...
Why have sex?
... easier, and more efficient, if you could reproduce on your own? This is something of a puzzler to biologists, as ... it seems a no brainer. In asexual you can do it on your own as a strong independent organism and all of your ... female so, only half of them will be able to make their own babies. If it's a game of numbers, sooner or later team ...
Naked mole rats have accents
... has its individual soft chirp. So each animal had its own voice. Eva - How did you actually make these recordings ... And it turns out that each colony seems to have its own distinctive dialect that was figured out by the machine ... the animal would answer the chirp if it was from its own colony or if it was from a foreign colony. And it turns ...
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 ...
Gene Therapy to Treat a Defective Immune System
... donor so there is no mismatch. We can use the child's own bone marrow. And if we have effective ways, which we do ... we can reconstitute their immunity using the patient's own cells. Chris - So what is the technique? Adrian - ... relatively safe and instead of the viruses taking their own viral genetic material into cells, they take the ...
Psychedelic toad venom chemical could cure depression
... most exciting development has come from academics like my own group using psychedelics. There's really good evidence ... but you don't need both? David - Well, that's the hope. My own personal view, and certainly our own research supports this, is that the magnitude of the ...
How can IVF help prevent inherited diseases?
... egg - replete with working mitochondria but devoid of its own genetic material - to fix the problem. The resulting ... pre-implantation genetic diagnosis was undertaken in my own laboratory. What we were able to do was to take a human ... healthy mitochondria. And because the affected woman’s own eggs are all potentially affected, this is where a donor ...
Do you own your own cells?
... of ethics, and indeed law... These are Henrietta Lacks’ own cells that are serving the pharmaceutical companies, and ... United Kingdom, there is no concept of property in one’s own body… It is still legal to use the Henrietta Lacks kind ... from the 1950s is at the centre of a new lawsuit Do you own your own cells? ...
Exoplanet atmosphere explored by astronomers
... since scientists detected the first planet outside our own solar system. These are called exoplanets and, since ... that we might not even see on any other planets in our own solar system. Firstly we confirmed that there is water in ... warms up, it can actually drive strong winds around our own planet. It’s how things like hurricanes work on the ...
Rocketry in WW2
... were working on weapons, the Nazis were developing their own. They were working on rockets. Weapons that could be ... 1930, he and his small group successfully launched their own rocket, what they called a Kegeldüse, which was a small ... because human beings often try to take control of their own narratives, right? We might ask ourselves, "did von Braun ...
Pacman protein
... a signal - made by a gene called Rac-1 - that turns our own cells into the biological equivalent of a pacman ... to? Nasreen - So annually, we shed cells equivalent to our own body weight so that's a lot of cells and, of course, the ... get it. So what you're saying is that we are shedding our own body weights worth of cells every year but if we were to ...
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 ...
Everyone Hates a Winner it Seems...
... money -- but only at the cost of giving up some of their own. Despite this cost to themselves, and contrary to ... people's money -- but only by giving up some of their own cash winnings. At the most expensive level, they had to ... chose to hurt others, despite the large cost to their own pocket. The researchers found that those who gained the ...
King's College lawn becomes wildflower meadow
... scientific side of what this all means, but just from your own perspective, this looks great. It invokes a great ... devolves even further. And who better than the project's own Cecily Marshall… Cecily - In terms of numbers of ... just how you could create a wildflower meadow of your own at home. Steve - You can have a wildflower meadow in your ...