“Losing the ability to smell is one of the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s diseases.” I hear this a lot, but people usually can’t comment more than this. So I looked into it:The cells involved in first helping you smell (the olfactory sensory neurons) have a really high turnover rate with a lifespan averaging about a […]
Science has fads and trends. Researchers don’t really like admitting this because it makes the science seem less credible. But these trends are backed with evidence and when it’s interesting, more people study it. When a topic is exhausted with the current technology (or when the initial high hopes are dissolved with mediocre findings), the […]
Last year, PBS released a documentary about James Watson (American Masters: Decoding Watson). Watson received a Nobel Prize in 1962 with Francis Crick for their contribution in discovering the structure of DNA. This documentary has left many researchers very angry because Watson is filmed discussing his perspectives on the intellectual differences between ethnicities. (The director […]
Are we what we eat? Or, to ask a simpler question, “can food affect our behavior?” Naturally, being hungry can increase certain behaviors to raise the odds of finding food, and therefore survival. A component of how food affects behavior may be through gut microbes. A collaborative effort went about trying to understand how movement […]
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